Letters of Ruth Stull, 1925-1933

Ruth Stull Letters, 1925-1933

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Guayaquil, Ecuador,

S.A.

June 8, t?25.

Dear Tabernacle Friendss

Five weeks ago this evening you gathered
about at the Pennsylvania Station to bid us God-
Speed, and it was all very precious to usj your
parting words, your loving notes to be read on
train and Steamer, your gifts and your Tears
were most dear to us. Please each one accept our
thanks.

If you have never stood on the steps of the
Pullman that is to start you on your journey to
The Regions Beyond, and looked into the faces of
the Staunch Band of God's Chosen Few who are
standing back of you as you go, you cannot know
the assurance and confidance that was in our hearts.

And this evening we are in Ecuador, have been
here one week, we are on the shore of the land
from which our Master has been calling ‘Come over
and help us'. We left the Steamer out in the River
and were brought to land in a little open launch,
as were also all the passangera. We had only to

come ashore to know we had come to a land where the
Gospel of Christ is needed.

It brought tears to our eyes and thanksgiving
to our Hearts when a Native said to us thru an in¬
terpreter that 'he loved us for coming altho he
could not tell us so in our language*.

We will stay in Guayaquil atleast until the
first of the year as this seems to be the best
place to study the language. Guayaquil is headquarters
for Ecuador so it is well to be here to get in line
with the work.

We now begin our Language study and will be
working hard. We know you have prayed for us during
our journey as God did wondrous things for us. All

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the way everything was just perfect and we knew
Our Leader was going ahead and preparing the way,

All praise to Our God.

I only wish you could see the people here,
then you would be doubly glad that Missionaries
are here with the Gospel which is the power of
God unto Salvation,

We are reminded repeatedly every hour of the
day that we are ausely in a foreign land among
a strange people, it is truly not like heme, it
is not comfortable, it is mot pleasant, and yet
we are happy, we are contented, yes we are exceeding
joyfulj Our God is here.

We know you have prayed for ua, we have been
wonderfully kept*

We are living with three other young people,
all Missionaries studying the language, a married
couple and a young man. We are most agreeable and
share our studies and helps together,

— God's Word ie daily food for us and we are

nourished in our Spirit by it. All Hie pranisee are
true,

You will pray for us won't you please.

Most lovingly yours, O A- \

Address us Casillia 571

Guayaquil, Ecuador,

S. A.

Guayaquil, Ecuador, S.A,
Caaillia 571
June 8, 1925,

Dearest Hate Folks

We sailed from N.Y. May 9th and arrived in Guayaquil
three weeks fro* that day in Ecuador, May 30th, We were met at the
Boat by Mr* Reed the Superintendent of Ecuadorian Alliance work and
also by all the missionaries stationed at Guayaquil. Most kind of them
we thought, made the momenta of arrival pleasant. Then we were
ushered immediately to the place where we are to live, where we are
living now in fact. Five of us live together, three other missionaries,
a young married couple who have been here one year and a young man having
been here 6 months. We are all studying the language, ofcourse the others
take part in services, while we cannot make ourselves understood at all.

We have a big time talking. You know Roscoe has not
much hair to spare but he went to the barber rfiop Saturday as is necessary
sometimes and he realized the fellow was cutting his hair a little too
short but he was afraid to tell him so for fear he would get the wrong
word and the fellow might cut it shorter still, so thought he had better
leave good enough alone. Oh well we will learn *poco A poco* as they say,
meaning little by little.

We are well, but desperately warm. We are just
now having the very coolest weather Guayaquil knows of, but say it is
hot hot not, we just melt and then melt seme more. The mosquitoes are
abounding in numbers and are exceedingly wicked when it comes to biting.

Had my first ride the other night in a 'Mule car 1 .

It is like an open street ear drawn along the track by one or two mules.

The creatures are so poor and weak they can hardly travel

The houses ere strange affairs. You can not live on
the first floor because it is too hot close to the ground and then the ground
is smelly. So you live on the second and third floor, the sun is just as
hot as possible whether first or second anyway and the farther up you go
the more air you are apt to get, only if you are on the top floor your
ceiling ie likely to be only the corrugated tingroof and then the heat is
unbearable. What ever your roof is that one piece is also your ceiling.

The walls ere only one thickness, what ever that is, wood ie some cases, many
times only paper or bamboo. The bamboo poles are sashed and then opened out
into a sheet instead of a round pole, so it ie much like paper. Things
are built in the cheapest way and also the way to make it cool as possible,
which is not very cool by the way. The walla stop from two to six feet
from the ceiling (the rooms being high) and the rest of the way up is
only iron cratings, or nothing, leaving it open for the air end their
is no way to close it. Does not generally rain in tho as the rain pours
straight down.

I

We will remain in Guayaquil at least until the first of next year.
This city is headquarters for the Alliance and the Superintendent lives
here, the business for Ecuador is transacted from this point and there is
a better opportunity for us to practise the language as there are many
Believers here to whan we can talk. They do not call them Christians
here but Believers. That is the folk who accept Jesus and follow Him.

How terrible that the name Christian should mean nothing to folk in
foreign lands but it dees not because all Americans who haste come to
these lands have called themselves Christians from a Christian and they
have proved to be anything but Christians and so the people are not
able to accept the name Christian as meaning a follower of Christ.

We are very happy to be in our Foreign field of service and are
studying for the language that we may be able to tell the Story of the
Cross to those who know it not. And they surely do not know it down
here. Hr. Reed does the Sunday preaching here in Guayaquil, and we
have been here two Sundays and both times there have been a good number
who publicly made it known that they wanted to forsake sin and become
followers of Jesus Christ. Uany have been saved here. They have their
meetings in a rented hall but are hoping to build a place where they
can^ have meetings and where some of the missionaries can live without
paying rent. God is really blessing the ministry here*

I had a little opportunity for service the first Sunday I was here.
I played the organ for them to sing. I did not know exactly what their
words were, but knew the melody and X played English while they sang
Spanish, Anyway it went alright and it was a pleasure to have a part in
in the service even before I could talk.

We hope you will write to us. Our address is Cassillia 571,
Guayaquil, Ecuador, S.A. That is our post office Box. It need not be
in care of anyone, just the Box number. We all get our mail thru the
same box.

,

Lovingly yours

Ruth and Robcos*

Castilla 9Tt»
Guayaquil* Ecuador, S.A.
Juno £3nd, T923,

Dearest Folk*

How £ surely nope that you are not going to take offeacd in
finding that a pert of this latter is a duplicate, but there Are so mmj
things that 1 think will be of interest to all of you that I am just saving
time and notion in making duplicates, but I hare each one of you in mind
as £ nrl Lte and can sure you understand*

£ tm isllghted to find that an ordinary 2/S stamp win bring a
letter right to its. Hot that £ think you would not sand letters if they
required Srf as do other foreign fields but it is sitoh a bother always to
go get a 5/c one. We get them for £j! because Ecuador le in the Foetal Onion*

Do not need to send our nail care of anyone, Just the above address* How
surely since it is so easy you will Just sit right down and write us a
letter*

We are finding Guayaquil quite liveable* People frm other
diners are very auoh afraid of this plaoe, as it has the record of being
very dangerous to health, there is indeed amah sickness and much death.

Shore is an improvement over past years, as the Sell on Fever «Moh was a
constmt plague here, has been practically wiped out, that has been a boon
to this place, but there is still Malaria abounding, indeed practically all
the natives hove hod it and when you once have it, you always hove it in
intermittent returns now and again, and also there is each other sickness of
various kinds. So Just from that you 'dll please pray God to shield us*

We have much to Pr.'doe Elm for ns have been perfectly well, are enduring
the ho t with unusual comfort and sonnet but praise God every corning an
night to find that Be has kept us well during another twelve hours.

Everything is so dif fe rent, hardly seams >te hove only come to
another part of our world, seems like a different world altogether. First
thing in the morning we hear 1 Pan-G-do-ro 1 | it is one word with a oontinuod
rice until th® last syllabio is drawn out into a call* £t is the baker*

* Pan* is bread, and Panadero is tide baker, and Panaderia is the bakery.

Welles you go to the window you see a nan walking along with a large flat
box, probably Jxf; ft., balanced on his head, and in the box loaves of bread,
nueh like our Vienna bread. She bread ia really good, for which we are so
thankful.

Then the mm comes with *!»aeh® } , trailing out the *e'. thle
is 'mi'te' and the milk wagon consista of a long polo perhaps •<* foot long,
and it is flipped thru the handles of as many two quart buckets as will
hand on it and then swung over the shoulder of the man. So that is how we
get our milk, the milk is norbad, altho I have never seen my eream, and we
must boil every drop of it, before using.

We also exist boil every drop of water we use and then wo pass it
thru a filter for further ,arfication, altho boiling makes it safe, but the
filter helps and also cools it. She filter ie a bowl made of oourse sand and
come substance, just what I have not disoovered, but will learn before going
to the Orlente, but It hav4 the effect of ce ont.

Then the Vegtable man will cone along with his tiny burrow bearing
a contraption consisting of a box hung on either side of his little body end in
the boxes all the different vegetables and fruits. The little animals know about
stop, ing at each house or corner, »ut the man oust got behind and above them to

to remind him to start on again. They aro very cruel to the animala

as a general thing tho, and I can aoaraely wndurjfet seeing them* Generally
even before them apeak to the bigger sales they strike then a blew over the
head with a board or anything they can pick up. that is the first warning
they have of tho drivers wish for then to move, A land of cruety indeed.

The people are a demoralised, unprincipled lot* To live is to lie.
cheat and steal. Just an example of a thing that happened a while ego*

Three p&ssemgora got on the train up the line coning down to a station near
Guayaquil. The conductor stopped for their fares and one of them paid the

throe farce. Tho one man seemed so quiet all thru the trip and it was noticed
by the conductor and others. He ore a poncho and a slouch hat drawn down,
ffhen they got off tho train tho two picked the third one up and hurridly carried
him away from the station* It was a corpse. Tou see you have to pay a much
larger passage fare for a corpso than a living person#

They are olevor to their cheating, at the market when they are just
ready to weigh your sugar eet*. thoy attract your attention 'earn© ow' to
another place and glvdyou oh opt weight. Tou loam to watch. I have not
dene that kind of buying by myself yet. Altho Rosooe manages to buy the

things he wonts. He upends an hour over the dictionary and then goes down
and uses the words ho has found and generally cornea baofc ith the article.

Oh I guess we will learn. Takes longer to learn how to asy it than to go
after it.

They are such a. deplorable eight, these people. Boons fitting to
write over the whole place. Without Christ', because that is the reason for

it all.

Souls are being saved. God is surely honoring tin? work of the Missionaries
here, and is 'working 1th then and confirming their words *. Just Friday
we had the re ort of a woman, who is the owner of a large 'Hacienda' that is
a plantation or farm, who beat hop con because ho showed on interest in the
Gospel as it was brought to him by ono of our native Christians here, and then
in a few day a aho get hold of a Gospel portion herself and became interested
and paid her way to cone to Guayaquil to be in the mooting Friday night to hear
about that which ohe had read. There are msqy fruits here. It means a great
deal for people 'for Confer!a Christ hure because th© place is over-ridden by
the Priests and they are porouc tod is they attend the mootings even. But
lAiat Christians th y do Rake.

Fray for us, we must have the language, the need is so gre^t here.

We are busily studying, don't forget us.

Lovingly yours in the He *

June 22nd,1925*

Dearest Folk*-

-1 an delighted to find that an ordinary 2F- stamp will
bring a letter right to us. Not that I think you wouldn’t send lettar
if it required 5^ as do other foreign fields but it is such a bother
as to always get a one. We get them for 2ji because Ecuador is In
the Postal Union. Do not need to send our mail anyone. Just the
following address,-Cassillia 57t,Guayaquil,Ecuador, S.A.

We are finding Guayaquil quite liveable. People from
other climes are very much afraid of this place, as it has the record
of being very dangerous to health,there is indeed, very much sickness
and much death. There is an improvement over the past years, as the
Yellow Fever which was a con tant playgue he re, has been practically
wiped out,that has been a boon to this place,but there is still
Malaria abounding, indeed practically all the natives have had it and
when you once have it,you always have it in lnterralttant returnsnow
and again. Also, there is much other sickness of various kinds. So
Just from that you wi 1 please pray God to shield us. We have much
to Praise Him for/,as r;e have been perfectly well,are enduring the
heat with unusual comfort and cannot but praise God every morning
and night to find that He has kept us well during another twelve hou®

Everything is so different,hardly seems we have only
come to another part of our world, seems like a different world all
together. First thing in the morning we hear 'Pan-a-de-ro'jit is one
word with a continued rise until the last syllable is drawn out into
a call. It is the baker. 'Pan* is bread,and Panadero is the baker,
and Panaderia is the bakery. As you go to the window you see a man
walking along with a large flat box, probably 3x5 ft.,balahced on his
head, and in t,he box, loaves of bread much like our Vienna bread. The
bread is very good, for which we are so thankful.

Then the man comes with 'Leche* , trailing out the 'e*.
This is *rallk' and the milk wagon consists of a long pole perhaps 8
feet longand it is slipped thru the handles of as many two quart/4
buckets as will hang on it and then swung over the shoulder of the sm
man. So that is how we get our milk,the milk is not bad,altho I have
never seen any CREAM,and we must boll every drop of it,before using.

We also, must boil every drop of water we use and then we pass it thru
a filter for further purficatlon,altho the boiling makes it safe, but
the filter he|jps and al ;o cools it. The filter is a bowl made of
course sand and some substance,Just what,I have not discovered, but will
learn before going to the Oriente, but it has the effect of cement.

Then the Vegetable man will come along with his tiny
burrow bearing a contraption consisting of a box hung on either side of
his little body and in the boxes,all the different vegetables and fruit
The little know about stopping at hach house or comer,but the man must
get behind and shove them to start them gain. They are very cruel to
the animals as a general thing tho,and I can scarcely endure seeing tea
them. Generally even before they speak to the feigger mules they strike
them a blow over the head with a board or anything they can pick up,
that is the first warning they have of the drivers wish for them to aiasr
move. A land of cmelty, indeed.

The people are a demoralized,unprinclpaled lot} to live
is to lie,cheat and steal. Just an example of a thing that happened a
while ago. Three passengers got on a train up the line,coming down to
the station near Guayaquil, The conductor stopped for their fares and
one paid the three fares. The one man seemed so quiet all thru the fees
trip and it was noticed by the conductor and others. He wore a poncho
and a slouch hat, dram down. When they got off the train the two pick,
ed the third one up and hurriedly carried him away from the station. -
It was a corpse. You se you have to pay a much larger fare for a saxgs
corpse than a living person.

—-- - — _

They are clever in their cheating. At the marketwhen they are just
ready to weigh your sugar,etc. , they attract your attention to another
place,and give you short weight. You learn to watch. I have not done
that kind of buying yet,altho Roscoe manages to buy the things we want.
He spends an hour over the dictionary and then goes down and uses the
words he has found and gennerally comes back with the articles. Oh, I
guess we will learA, Takes longer to learn how to say it than to ge
after it.

They are such a deplorable sight,these people. Seems fitting to
write over the whole place,"Without Christ".because that is the reason
for it all. Souls are being saved, God is surely honoring the work of
the Missionaries here,and is ‘working with them and conforming their
words'. Just Friday we had the report of a woman,who is the owner ofi a
'Hacienda*,that is a plantation or farm,who beat her son because he
showed an interest in the Gospel as it was brought to him by one of
our native Christians here,and then in a few days she got hold of a
Gospel portion herself and became interested,and paid her way to come t
to Guayaquil to be in the meeting Friday night to hear that which she
had read. It means a greaA deal for people to Confess Christ here
because the place is over-ridden by the Priests and they are persecute}
afraid to attend the meetings,even. But what Christians they do make.

Pray for us,we must have the language,the need is so great here, life
are busily studying,don*t forget us.

June 24th, 1925.

Well,it is early morning and my day’s study has not begun,in fact
I have not had breakfast yet,but I must write the account of yesterday^
experience. We are having so many strange things to learn and accustcn
ourselves to,but yesterday we had me a little out of the ordinary, I
think. We experienced an ---"Earth Quake" -•

Roscoe and I were sitting here a$ a little table congugating verbs
in Spanish and Mrs. Clark, who is half of the other young couple living
with us,was sitting just near ua at another table writting and she loo::
ed up kind of funny and said, 'did you feel that? Well,we had not felt
much of anything,but she said it jrcls an Earth Quake. It was rather a
startling announcement aitho we had not felt much, but in about ten
more seconds we had another quake and no one need tell us this time xftt
what it was. This is the first I ever experienced a quake,and I can
never tell you the feel of it. Our building simply rocked. Dad you
remember when you used to pile Strawberry crates up,one on top of
another until it was three or four feet high and then when the stnckxms
was Jarred,how the top one would rock and shake allways,well that is
J ist how our house did. It shook until doors shook open, shut,open,shut
and my heart did double time for 50 minutes after it was all over. We
were near the french doors,which form the openings at the front of our
rooms,therefore being near our windows,and things were just swinging
back and forthjquite startling to look at. I sure don’t want another
one. They ; re apt to have one or more a year he re, just at this season.
This is the changing of seasons; we are going from winter into summer,
aitho the winter is the rainy and hot season, while the simmer,from now
until November is dry and 'coolerjbut it is never very cool,they tell
us. But no one had breathed about the probabilty of an earth-quake,
needless to say I felt funny. Well,this is Just one of the many times
since we left the shores of U.S.A. , that we have been very thankful that
we knew how to get into immediate touch with God. We prayed. People
ran screaming from the houses into the streets. We did not move tho.
You are safer in your house than in the street,because if the quake is
severe enough to shake buildings down,why they come from every directia
and the street is not safe. They say this was no little quake even for
here.I see why the buildings are built as they are, partly at least.

They are such flimsy things,the foundations are not solid,that is,the
building is not solid on the foundation,and it is because of the quakes
2hen a building is solid and rigid,they crack when twisted in one of
these quakes,but these things like we live in Just twist and shake
around and settle back again into place and all is well. Most building
are two stories,some three but when they see a four story one going up
they shake their heads and say'that is not safe,I wouldn't live in it*.
They can't weather the quakes.

Well,we came thru it with only a few flutterings of our hearts and
are thankful it was no worse. Every morning and every night we have
so many things to thank God for.There is so much to be saved from,and s
we have been wonderfully kept. Thank God with us for His wonderful
care,we Praise Him so.

Say GoIda dear, I do with you as with the other Home Polk,answer
all your letters in the letter that goes to the Stull Headquarters.
When I write to the Beninghoff Family,I answer Pearl'a,and Ada's and
Maud's letters and then they mail them around.Keeps them all linked up
and saves me lots of work.

Lovingly yours in the Regions Beyond,

Ruth & Ross.

2

Casillia 57t,
Guayaquil> Ecuador, S,A#
June 24th, 1925,

Bear Home Polict

Well it is early morning and my day's study haB not begun,
in fact I have not had breakfast yet, but I just must write the account of
yesterday's experience. We are having so many strange things to learn
and accustom ourselves to, but yesterday we had one a little out of the
ordinary I think. We experienced an —'Earth Quake'—-.

Roscoe and I were sitting here at a little table congugating
verbs in Spanish and lire, Clark, who is half of the other young couple living
with ua, was sitting just near us at another table writing and she looked up
kind of funny and said taid you feel thatT Well we had not felt much of
anything, but she said lit is an earth-quake'* It was rather a startling
announcement altho we had not felt much, but in about 10 more seconds we
had another quake and no one need tell us this time what it was# This is
the first I ever experienced a quake, and I can never tell you the feel of it.
Our building simply rocked. Dad you remember when you used to pile
Strawberry crates up one on top of another until it was three or four high
and then when the stack was jarred how the top one would rock and shake all
ways, well that is just how our house did# It shook until doors shook open,
shut, open, shut, and my heart did double time for JO minutes after it was
^ all over. We were near the french doors, which form the openings at the
front of our rooms, therefore being our windows, and things were just
ewinging back and forth, quite startling to look at. Oh my oh My X don't
want another one#

They are apt to have one or more a year here just at this
season, this is the changing of seasons, we are going froij
winter into summer, altho the winter is the rainy and hot season, while
the summer, from now until November is dry and 'cooler', but is is never
very cool they tell us. But no one had breathed about the probabilty of
an earth-quake, needless to say I felt funny. Well this 1b just one of
the many times since we left the shoreso f U.S.A. that we have been very
thankful that we knew how to get into immediate touch with God, We prayed#
People ran screaming from the houses into the streets# We did not move
tho# You are safer in your house than in the Btreet, because if the quake
is sever enough to shake buildings down, why they come from every direction
and the street is not Safe. They say this was no little quake even for here,

I see now why the buildings are built as they, partly at least* They are such
flimsy things, the foundations are not solid, that is the building is not
solid on the foundation, and it is because of the quakes, when a building is
solid and rigid, they crack when twieted in one of these quakes, but these
flimsy things like we live in just twist and shake around and settle back again
into place and all is well. Most buildings are two stories, some three but
when they see a four story one going up they shake their heqds and say 'that is
not safe, I wouldn't live in it'. They can't weather the quakea. Well we came
thru it with only a few extra flutterings of our hearts and are thankful it was
no worse# Every morning and every night we have so many things to thank God for.
There is so much to be saved from# and we have been wonderfully kept#

Thank God with us for His wonderful care, we praise Him so#

' ^'

We were quite shocked to find our letter in news paper print word for
word. I think it was most thoughtful of you to have it printed as eo many
would get to see that way while we simply cannot write to everyone, and there
are so many relatives and church friends and others who are interested. They
surely did good work in putting it ia as it was word for word,

Golda we got your letter yesterday and were just delighted to have it.
Really we seem closer home when the letters come from you. We know you are
very very busy too, but we .do appreciate your letters. We are taking every
other Monday for writing letters, and then slipping in an extra once in a
while, like this one for instance.

Well Golda it was a shame you and Dess got there too late to say good bye
again, but I believe it was jjst as well, because if you had been there we would
have had another big-weep, and as it wqs we &ot thru it pretty well, not having
any of our nearest folk there, so we were sort of decent to say good bye to the
outside folk.

That poor Mother Cat and the dear little kittens, makes me want to cry to
think of the Mother hunting everyplace for her babies. It was a cat tragedy
sure enough.

Don’t forget Golda you said you ’would write again next week’.

Love to all of you,

Ruth and Roscoe.

P,S. Say G olda dear, save your pennies, it only takes one 2jt stamp to reach
us, we are in the Postal Union.

Another P.S.

I do with you as with the other Home Polk, answer all your letters in the letter
that goes to the Stull Headquarters, When I write to the Beninghoff family
I answer Pearl's and Ada's and Maud's letters and then they mail them around.
Keeps them all linked up and —-Saves me work. Guess I am lazy,

Much Love

R.

Guayaquil, Ecuador, S.A,
Oaflillia 571,

7-12-25

Dearest Folk:

How for the general news. It is awful. We are in the midst of a
REVOLUTION. Don*t be alarmed because we are not. We do not think we are in
any danger whatever. At least not as things stand now. Well here is the
story. To begin with this is positively the most unsubstantial country I have
ever heard of. Here is how it is. One and one-half years ago the president
was elected, ofcourse that was followed by him putting into office all his
friends and those who became his friends in a political way. Things have
gone fairly smoothly, as smooth as they ever are in Ecuador I understand.

But a plan has been brewing underneath in the hands of the Army and Navy,

And last Thursday night between 5 and 6 all over Guayaquil little groups of
Soldiers sprang upon the official heads, wherever they were, in their offices
etc., and took them prisoners and rushed them out into the river and onto an
old ship that has been anchored there for years, unable to move and with a
great hole in one side that is threatening the winking of it any hour. The
officials were helpless because one of the first to be captured was the Chief
of Police, and as soon as he is out of power the police forse goes into the
controls of the Army. There wsb no officer to appeal to because every high
officer was a prisoner. It was planned to a finish, and surely was worked
slick. They say they did not think the Guayaquil Army had it in them to pull
off such a thing.

The big thing about it is the secrecy in which it was kept until
the very hour . And almost toe same thing was done at almost the same time
in every center in all Ecuador, In Quito, the capital, the president and all
the high officers were arrested and put in prison* Think of it, arresting the
president of Ecuador and putting him in prison, and yet under the kind of
government they have here they can do it. All these men will be banished from
the country. Sounds like a fairy story but it is just that way. It has been
done before at different times* Ecuador is famous for her Revolutions, There iB
most always bloodshed, many people killed and sometimes a great massacre.

Just four years ago on the t5th of November the main street here, one block
from us, trickled rivilets of human blood as the result of an uprising somewhat
of this kind.

We were all here in the house last Thursday night and all at
once we heard the shrieks and howls of the mob, but did not know until it was
over what it was, so missed the scare* Sounded to us like the accompanyment of *
prize fight or ball game, but it was the mob. The Soldiers soon controlled toe
people and the mob was scattered,

Mr, Reed, our Supertindent, has been thru many Revolutions in his
27 years here and he Bent a special messenger to our house to tell us not to go
out of the house, but that we were quite certain to be perfectly safe in our
houses, This is now Sunday P.M. and things have not come to anything yet
except the taking of toe officials, there has been no bloodshed. But there iB
an awful feeling to things, Ecuador has no President, no offidale, everything
is just in the hands of the Soldiers and Sailors. And the people fear and hate
the soldiers, because they are so horribly cruel and blood thirsty. They, the
army will noWput up a candidate for president, and he will be elected more or
less by mob vote. But the danger is no* that they will divide among themselves
in the choice of a President, or that the poepje will rise against them in their
choice, then there will be'Yegular way, with the army equipped and toe common

it will not
us, but

Missionaries, BUT GOB DOES.

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evcr^ong is in danger.The bullets do not know we are Missionaries. BUT c

We feel secure in His hands.

Haven't received a letter from you yet, except your first one Dad, but
maybe on the next boat there will be twelve, 80 we won't fret, but will just
wait and see.

Now don't worry about us, because we are sure there is positively no
danger for us. The whole thing may settle down and there will be nothing to it.

4

We are getting on fine. We feel well and happy and are quite contented.

We expect to go to Quito in the near future, then that will mean cold weather
for us. Just keep on writing us here tho until we tell you differently because
everything will be forwarded to us no matter where we are.

Hope everyone is well. Would just love to see you all, but we are
terribly far away.

Say Ivon did you have any trouble whatever in settling up Roscoe's
affair at the bank. Please send us your bill and accept our thanks for your
kindness. Don't what mixed that thing up.

It is getting a bit cooler here, we can stand it if it stays this way
flor awhile.

We are making real progress with the language. Can't do much with
it yet but a little.

This is Monday morning now and everything is so quietf we think maybe
the trouble is all settled and there won't be any trouble at all. So don't
fret about your Kids, we think we are alright.

Lovingly,

.Ruth and Roscoe.

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Quito, Ecuador, 3.A,

Caailla 1JT
Aug•29th*

Dearest Folk*

I We found this last soak that our strange experiences of travel were

/no means over when we landed on the shore of South Amerioa, Tou see we have
been in Guayaquil sinoe coming here three months ago and that is the port where we
landed* But last week we packed our few belongings again and boarded THE train
for Quito* But before you board the train, you oross the river on a yache, from
Guayaquil to Duran which lies across and up the river a little way* The train
left at 7 a.m. and all went smoothly until about 9 o*clock when the train stopped
on a siding, they detached the engine, backed it up past us end disappeared in the
rear. Well they informed ue they had forgotten to pick up a ooakh they were supposed
to take on at the last station* So we just waited. Finally the little engine came
puffing back with its neglectod section* Then we were off again. Be spent the
rest of the forenoon passing new and strange, some lovely and some homely ecenes.

We had eeen Banana trees in Florida, but here we saw forests of them.

We had also seen Banana Blossoms but not the glorious huge things we wee here. They
are a gorgeous color, between mulberry ..nd ashes-of-roses. If I had time I would
run over to Paris and take one to the follow who names the colors you are supposed
to dress in next Spring* I am sure 'Banana Blossom' would be most popular if it
oould be reproduced* It looks pretty to see the immense bundles of bananas hanging
on the trees. All thru this district whenever the train stopped the women would
‘come running along the side of the train to sell their bananas, and indeed they
tasted very good. Also they came with pineapples, Whey cannot be gotten well
forth r U] country so most everyone was buying them to take on with them* so to
had fruit-fragrange allthe way*

The houses along the way were bamboo affairs, not very substantial
looking. There were birds, at least I suppose we callthea birds, they are the
> - ’lturs. and they were not only circling about in the air, but were perched on the

_ yuee tope as we see sparrows in the states* And they did not bother to fly away
when the train passed either, very tame, big ugly things*

A groat ; art of the way we were following a path out thru the dense
jungle. Just a tongled mass of grottbh of vegetation on either sidd. Then we

came to the foot of the mountain way and began our first real experience of mountain
climbing in the Andes* I do not exactly take joy in giving you this description
because words, in ijy vocabulary at least* cannot possibly do justioe to the beauties
afforded by the Andes* /Some in the States, who have both seen the Alps and the
And es, d eclare that the Andes are the most beautiful. I have never seen the Alps
_bu $1 for a day and a half I have beheld the most beautiful scenery in these Andes
Mountains, more wonderful by far than my imagination had pictured them, I am aure
I never looked so much in any other two days in my life^ yt looked and looked until
I really welcomed darkness of night because I simply could not look any more, Mother
you would have most killed yourself looking* How I do wish you could see them.

It is just too muoh to see all at one time. As a result I spent a day in bed in a
dark room with boracio compacts on my eyes* Tou would all have done just the same
way, you just oouldn > t stop looking

_ / The vegetation changed he.e and the mountain slopes were covered

with the pepper trees and other trees that look like mammoth ferns, just lacy, ferny
greenery, soft! looking and pretty.

Well just at noon this first day we had a different scene to look
at. There had been a terrible land-slide . They think was the result of
a voloanio eruption back in the mountains somewhere because there did not seem to
be any other reasonable cause for it, it being the dry season. But you could
, ’ •>ok way up the hills and see where it had raced down the slope and completely
iried the railroad track for 2,000 feet with a stack of dirt loo feet high. The
track is right in a little vallyy between the heights, as it i o much of the way,

-nd the dirt came down and nd dashed way up and banked itself against the other
hills on the o_ oeite side. A treaenduous thing. tfell uedlosa to say our
• train stopped and >»e had to get out bag and Jjaggage and cliau up this new hill of

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freah dirt and walk over that little mountain there between it* big brother tnd
sister mountains ind finally we found another train at the other end of all this
waiting to take us the rest of the way. It wee an inconvenience to say the least,
but we kept being thankful that our train was not right there when the slide came,
ind it was real eau^a for thanksgiving indeed* But we soon forgot the trouble of
W change in the wonderful scenery that lay ahead, lie soon began the ascent up
the ‘Devil*a Hose', for thie is the name of one of the sharpest heights on the
trip, and it was not only thrilling, but breath-taking. Part of the time you did
not speak a word but just wondered how a train could perform such a fete, and would
we actually get up und well you had other thoughts also* They cay there is only
one other place in the world where an ordinary train makes auoh a steep ascent.

By ordinary train X mean where one goes up without cogs. fills is how they de it*

Prom the bottom you look up and you see the track sig—sag all the way up the side
of the mountain* The train takes you up an elevation along the foot of the hill,
then it baokes you up the neat asig to the end of it and then pulls you forward up
the next sag and so on until you are at the top, then It takes you down the other
side. The river runs thru the valley at the bottom and as you go up terrace after
terrace you look down and many places you are on such a narrow la|ge that you do
not se any anything but space and then tha river at the bottom, and the bottom is
a long way down. that is, you see all this if you look, but uany people never look,
really it is enough to give you heart failure. But we looked, it was so wonderful,
and you know Christians have such a different feeling about places liko this than ho
poor folk who are not conscious of the constant protection of a loving tied and Father*
Be took pictures from the train window but have not gotten them yet so ao net know
whether on not they ill be good.

From here on it was a emeries of wonderful pictures ana wo enjoyed it
until about 5*15 p.a. when wa stopped in a little town, ffhile they were shifting
us around here they broke the wrist-pin to the drive-shaft ana there we stayed
until they went somewhere for another engine, fills took them until 10 p.m. Bell
we had packed lots of eats for the trip, because something like thie, sometimes
. so bad and sometimes worse nearly always happens on this trip up the hills to
so we prepared that at least we would not go hungry. Ofcouree if you like
the things they bring to the car windows at all these stops you would not be hungry.
But you simply have Ho learn* to eat these things. At thie plaoe, it warn roast
port, and a king of bun* Hot so bad. There was » little counter me.de of a board
on something or other and on it two large platters each holding a whole roast pig,
ears and everything clear to the end of the tail.

At 1Ct0 iV p.m. they came with a little tiny engine which could only
pull half the train, so they cut it in two, and took the front part, we were in the
front part. Well they took us miles and miles, then left ui on a siding and went
back with the engine to bring up the other half. We were at this siding until
3*15 the next morning when they caught up to us with the other half. Ana such a
night* There are only day co&ohes on this train, no sleepers because it is naVer
supposed to travel at night because it is too dangerous, so there we were bag and
baggage in that day coach on the very top of a most terribly cold mountain, and we
did shivver through that long black night* Beside first class passengers in our
coach there were a lot of Indians who had been riding on top the train all the way
but when all this happened they came down and entered the train and lay in the isle
during the night, Tou didn't like to have the poor cold things sent out, anu anyway
you couldn't have is you had liked to, because the conductor had gone baek with the
engine for the rest of the train. We also had a cat and a rooster in our aouch and
the rooster crowed at the appointed time for roosters to crow*

At 5*15 a.m. we were glad to see our little engine and to feel
the train move and were glad to see the dawning of a day. At 7 o'clock w© reached
Gecnbisrija. This 1 ■ ontain city a at the to of thirds, Tha water from he*e drains
. "*.o the Atlantic an 4 one-half ail© west of here it drains into the Pacific*

Riobamba is shore we should have slept all tight at a hotel. Should
have reached here about 0 p.m. the night before, but got here at *15 inthe morning.
So there was no time to rest as the train was going right on. But we jum; ed off the'
train and ran into the hotel for a cup of coffee, which we callin't drink, awful stuff.

and got right back on the train and started on for another day*8 journey for Quito*

So wo /x-odffl all day again and arrived in Quito at 3*20 y.a. Well that ia a pretty
fair sample of a train trip here. Ofcourse it ia not always that bad, but quite
often it ia just as bad as that*

But this last day *«<* a joy never to be forgotten. We were tired and a bit
ary but there were bo many fine things to see that we got on quite well* The
-idxt atop was Ambato and here when the train stopped the women swarmed about the
car winders and to the steps selling little sicker baskets of lovely strawberries
and others with baskets of tangerines. At this place altho among the mountains
has strawberries all the year thru. It Is in a protected valley*

At another station# a wee bit of a place, there were women with their cows*

Each women had one cow and one glass. She would milk the glass full and run to
the train with it, someone would pay her and drink the milk and she would take the
glass and run back and milk it full again and sell it t someone else and so on
until the train left. We didn't buy any. Didn't feel thirsty.

At one station they had plates with queer looking^ things on them. They
wore roasted guiney pigs. Whole ones. They say they are very good, like
chicken meat, but really we wore not hungry, at least not that hungry. We were
glad we still had some of our sandwiches.

This day Was a marvel. Most all day we eay the sky anv the earth all
mixed up. Sometimes we were above the clouds, sometimes in ihsm. We passed
bleak,bear mountains., then green ones, then those that looked like a patch-work
quilt because they were all layed out in fields, wheat, oats and other kinds of
cultivated grains. Then at the foot of the hills would be the cunning houses
with grass r ofs, all shapes of them. And here and there on the hills we
would see the sheep grassing ana a little fenced in place like one room wnere
the lamb a wore penned in. They looked so pretty. Most always there was a
tiny boy watching the sheer, Pences are scange*

A little farther up we saw the llama. They were being used as burden
bearers, home were carrying great bunches of clover and a kind of grass on their
v "“k» and in every cuss the little bent woman who was leading them was carrying
neater load on har back than the llama was bearing. The women hero all treat
their animals better than they themselves are treated*

Many places we could almost reach out and touch the ferns and flowers along
the slopes. There are all kinds of mountain flowers, Soso of the little spring
flowers like cure in the States, Dainty pink nd lavender biossoma and then come

yes many a brilliant bold rad. One valley we come thru wan full of lovely whit®
lilies, just like calla lily, I had not cared much if the train had broken down acre.
I did bo want to gather some of them.

At a great number of places a tiny falls would start nay up in the tops
of the mountains somewhere and come tumbling down and down right beside the train.
There was no end to wonderful things.

We saw the sunset above the clouds. Sounds strange doesn't it* We were way
up in the hills and then there was a valley and another mountain across from us
which was abovs the lowest clouds and there were all the »unsot coulors there above
tiie clouds. Just wish you could all have seen it.

Now we came in sight of enow topped mountains. Just the day before we had
been nearly melting and looking at ripening bananas. We had come from sea level
to an elevation of 1r,000 feet.

By the wap while were sitting out on the mountain the night before there
h A bsen another alius way ahead of ue that held up the train coming from the other
direction 7 hours, but it was not bad and it w&o cleared awsy sufficiently for us to
pass. Quite a game this# dodging land slides to get from one place to another.

Well probably the most wonderful of the whole trip was just at sunset this
last evening of the trip. We came in eight of Cotopaxi# Cotopaxi is a volcano

feet high. The top is like a huge cone coverod with snow. We watched it
's. ig while and after a little the sunset glow hit it and the top seemed to be
set on fire. The sun on the snow made it look transparent. It was this way
for half an hour or mors. The moat glorious thing you can imagine. Many times
smoke comes from Goto >axi even now, but it hae. not been known to throw out any '
lava for a long time. We nearly looked our eyes out and *er© almost glad

when it got dark.

AMBATO, ECUADOR# S.A,
Feb* 12, ‘26,
Apartado L,

Dearest Folk:

You are probably wondering wnat haa become of u». Well we have
been cut off from railroad connect!one# By a Revolution and by five land*
slides between here and the coast* There is positively only one way to get
mail out of Ambato and when that was is blocked, mail just does not go* The
rains have started and the tracks are buried with every slide because they
are lying in the valleys and with mountains on both sides all the way up
here, so they are kept busy digging them out and sometimes are held up for
days and even months*

But the REVOLUTION was right here in Ambato* We surely have
had our share of ‘stirs* since landing in this country* 1*11 tell you
just what happened as you write you want to know just how we live and all
that concerns us*

Thing b have been unsettled since last July when they jailed
the President and all the high officials and then ushered them out of the
country* Since then there haa been no President, and the Military forces
have run affairs. Ofcourse they all looked forward to eventually putting

in another President and in the planning for it the Military forces became
divided among themselves as to the man and the method of putting him in*

So to settle it they decided to fight it out, that is the way everything
is settled here* There simply is no *high court of Appeal* because they
are all in jail or banished. So the Army planned a revolution to bsaak
at every point all over Ecuador where a regiment waa stationed, it was set
for a certain day and a certain hour of the day* The public knew nothing
of it* Well a few days before it was to happen the regiment stationed
here in Ambato broke among themselvea, the lower officers and the soldiers
rebelled against the higher officers* putting them all into guarded cells
in the barracks. This waa done in the night, and early in the morning
reports began to be circulated among the town people of what was going on*

A part of the regiment from here waa stationed in the next town, and they
simply stopped a passing train and boarded and came to Ambato and joined
their force here as they knew the regiment from Quito, the capitel, would
be rushed here at once to bring them into submisalon. They did not intend
to submit* Their prepared their forces took their machine guns and
stationed themselves for the fight, they expected the Pichinchi Regiment
from Quito to reach the edge of town at 8 o'clock that night and they
were ready, having announced to us that there would be *a devil of a
fight*,

At a time like this everyone nearly goes wild* You see
Ecuador has been having revolutions regular for I don't know how long,
ever since it was, I guess* And these poor people know what they are
up against* Hilling comes wholesale. Every fellow gets his enemy)
that is his personal political, business or social enemy* That is one
of the terrors of a Revolution, The other is the looting of houses.

One part of the people are busy hiding their possessions and the other
a little more forward are just as busy watching for a change to graj>
something, or simply making a way to get possessions, brutally or
otherwise, makes no difference* And people are terrorized * On
the afternoon of this day then the trouble began a man in the plaza,
being the market place, fired a shot and a near riot resulted, folk
ran and screamed and tables of merchandise weze upset and money grapped
right and left from the saleswomen* That is a little sample of what
happens when war really breaks out*

People come to the houses of Americans and beg them to take their
possessions and hide them in their houses, The Americans are much
safer than the Natives in time of war. But not free from concern by
any means. We need have no fear of the acting forces becauae they know
they must honor the AMERICAN STARS AND STRIPES, And how thankful we
were this past week for our glorious 5 by 8 Flag, When floating from
your window you are protected perfectly from any actual atta<t from the
soldiers. But our danger is equal with the rest of the residents from
drunken looters, and in times like this they drink purposely to make
themselves daring. You see we don't have prohibition, don't even have
to go to the salon for it, you ‘get it at your nearest grocery' and
every place. And the drinking is dreadful.

Every white woman residing in Ecuador in Revolution times has
sufficient reason for fear. It is guardedly but nevertheless meaningly
said by those Slaving power to do it, "This is our chance to get the
white women*«

One of the American families living in the house with us has a
daughter 18, She has extremely light hair, a blond to the fullest, and
Jshe is very noticeH.e because of it. The natives are all very dark and
a blond is marked at once as a 'prize'* Well these poor people were in
actual torment with foar for her. They have no firearms and felt
perfectly helpless in the abiding circumstances. If you want a cold
chill think of yourselves in their place. Well Roscoe went downstairs
and made the rounds of the whole building and it is large, barring every
door and window eo that it would take a great deal of breaking and noise
for anyone whatever to gain entrance, you would be well warned before
they would actually be in the patio from which to gain entrance to the
upstairs, where we all have our apartments. Then we loaded our two
JS‘s, you know Aunt 'Ml gave ub one and Cousin 'L l , gave us one before
we came out, so thought this might be the time they were for. So each
one held a full round and each of us had a hand full of extras where we
could pick them up quick, then we made a way that the family with the
blond daughter could get over into our apartment quickly if necessary
for protection. We were not planning to shofctanyone, but many times
a little shooting at the right time will save you HAVING to shoot later.
Well at 10 o'clock the fighting had not begun so we went to bed and were
not up again until morning. Had a splendid rest and were not afraid.

No# that is really not a proof of any special bravery on our part in
comparison with the agony of fear others were experiencing, really it
is not, because we have never actually seen a revolution and these others
have, and that makes a thousand miles of difference.

Well The Pichinchi did not come at eight o'clock, neither did
it come during the night, at least they did not meet the regiment at

the place appointed for fighting, BUT- when morning came we saw the

results of some mighty fine commanding, Pichinchi had come, full force,
they were stationed in squads on the ridges of mountains which wall in
Ambato* You see we are in a perfect basin with mountains on every side
of us. Another batqlion faced the Ambato regiment, but because of some
clever work on the part of those at headquarters at Quito, in the front
of the ranks were a line of soldiers from the Ambato regiment who happened
to be in Quito, There were the Ambato men, facing a line of their own
men, if they fired at all, they would kill a fine line of their own men
first, next when going over their machine guns to put them ia the last
stage of readliiess, they found every single gun was minus the trigger.

One of the High officers they had put in jail had managed in come way
to get this accomplished. Not only those two things to hinder, but
word come that another regiment was coming from Riobamba the next
station on the opposite side of Ambato from Quito, That meant they
would have to divide their force hers to meet the two regiments one

on either side of the town. They eould not come right into Ambato because
the soldiers here had taken up the tracks on both sides of Ambato, when we
heard that, it made us feel a little helpless. But it was so well handled
by Quito that no one here had need of thought.

The result was that the Ambato men saw their complete helplessness
and simply broke ranks and fled, every fellow for himself, officers and all*
some with their arms, others dropped them and rushed for a hiding place and
shelter. It means 16 years in prison for this sort of offence on the part
of soldiere, so it was every fellow get away for himself or be put in prison
A military prison sentence is no littie thing. Weil there was a rush ana
exfcitenent in this town and surrounding country for a while. Our Mission
house i* in one block, in the block next on one side is the Military
barracks and headquarters, in the block next on the other side of us is the
Prison. Well we were right on the highway for all the sights and happenings
They would round up three or a dozen soldiers one place and march them past
to prison, then one and then two and then more, and so it kept up all day*
Then for a couple of days they brought them in from country places. The
mounted soldiers went out and brought many in, and each time new ones were
brought in, women and children would run along with them to see if it were
the husband or father of their family. It was a sad sight. Some found
their men and wept along with them to the prison doors where they were
burned back. This went on night and day. Many soldiers got into houses
got clothing and left their uniforms and escaped that way, some worked
transformations that they thought sufficiently deceiving and appeared on
the streets, many of these were recognized however and taken up, some
they are sure are still right here in town yet. We say one soldier enter
the house right across from us and after a little while saw him come out
again in other clothing that didn*t exactly fit him, but he left with them.
One officer wrapped himself in the Ecuadorian flag and stabbed himself.

Folk are afraid of the country districts now. Full of the stray soldiers
who need money badly to effect their getaway and are killing people to
get it to help them out of the country, A crowd of young men we know
here had planned a big hunting trip, an annual event for them, but they
are not going, they say it is not safe to go into the country until these
fellows are all caught or get out of the country.

Things are quiet now, A new regiment will be sent here.

But what is accomplished? Well this big thing is* it broke up the

plan for a revolution all over the country. That is a thing to be
mighty thankful for. Another is that the Quito officers planned things
as they did, and that the Ambato men say the uselessness and did not
fire, if they had fired even one shot the Pichinchi would have opened

fire and this side of Ambato would have been simply demolished. Our

house is well to the side where the fighting would have gone on and
they were on the ridges and facing the town in such a way the whole
end of town would have been riddled. We feel a deeper thankfulness
in our hearts than we can express. We are giving praise to God,
and feeling more restful than ever. We are enjoying a renewed knowledge
of absolute security in the unbreakable Refuge that God Himself is to us.

No more now. Must get thixti this into the P,0, as a train
will go thru to the coast this p.m.

We are enjoying the best of health and experiencing perfect
contentment. We wish the same for all of you there in the States.

Lovingly,

RUTH & ROSCOE,

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I am making a duplicate of thia.
One for each family*

Dearest Folk:

Quito, Ecuador, S.A
Caailla 1J7.

January 22nd,

I feel a%. tho I have Just recently come back from another world,
or, been resurrected from the dead.

Almost exactly two months ago I went to bed in the agony that
proved to be a fully begun case of Jjtipphoid fever. For a couple of weeka
I had been so* tired I could only dcFthe simplest of tasks and then simply
have to go to bed* Ve had just moved and besides that had the Larson
family with us. They were getting ready to leave for the Orients and we
were helping them get their things packed and entertaining them in their
last days in Ambato* I would manage a meal and then drop into my bed*

I was seeing a Doctor, but there seemed to be no special oause for my
ti/rfrdnees* Then on Thanksgiving evening Ross helped me into my bed and
right from that night my world went wild. By morning I had an alarming
temperture, and in the following days it went up rather than down altho
the Doctor was caring for me. We feared the typhoid, it is so treacherous
here. (Oh yes, we had both been inoculated against it, and took every
precaution regarding the water and food we used.) But the fever was so
high and it held the hdght throughout the day and night as well. Beside
that I had the typhoid noee-bleed. Not only that but Rosb found the little
red spota on the right side of my abdomen, the spots that disappear when
you press them, and he help I must have the fever* But the Doctors
declared it was NOT* Then Roes got another Doctor and they held a

consultation and returned with the firm decision that it was not the typhoid.
They may not have known, but sometimes I think they did know and were
afraid to acknowledge it. Another Gringo woman (we English speaking folks
here are Gringos) had died in the hands of the Ambato doctors only a few
weeks before and her husband had t ken two little motherless boys back
to Scotland, and I think they were scared. But they tried to convince us
that it was the grip with rheumatism, the rheumatism to account for the
excruciating agony in my back, and the grip as the reason for the sudden
fever that about put me out of my head. The counseling doctor knew &
little English and used that on me, and that made me mad, X could feel the
wrath coming right up from my toes, and I told him in the best Spanish
I could muster that I didn’t want hie theories but X wanted to know it if
X had the thphoi<l so as to get out of Ambato where I could get someone
who could help me. A pretty hard saying for two Ambato doctors to listed
to, but I was desperate, even tho X was packed down in ice, X could feel
thd funny things that were going on in my head, you know that going and
coming sensation. Papa you know what I mean, you have had it. But, they
still said it was NOT the typhoiu. I had been in bed a week now, and Ross
knew it wouldn’t be for much longer if I didn’t get help, and I wasn't
getting it, so that day or the next, I don't know which it was, he dumped
me into an Auto and brought me to Quito. I find I don't remember a lot of
things that went on. That Auto ride, I can well quote California Joe,

’Lord.' what a ride'. One of the believers, a Serior Sanchez, came with us.
He and hie wife, the SeKora de Sanchez, had been with us night and day since
I became sick. They both would stay all day and she would go home at 10
o'clock at night, they have a little girl, and he would stay. He and Ross
would take two hour ahlfte at night. One would sleep and the other keep
the ice on me and watch my temperture and do the other necessary things.

Oh what a week it was and how I did suffer.

flell that ride. They got a third doctor to give ms a double hypo
to hold me till they got me to Quito. The other Doctors probably would not
have given it aa they would not have been willing to have me go* (The Dr. that
we call our doctor in Ambafeo asked Sr .Sanchez* when he had retumd, what Dr. it

who ordered that we should go to Quito. He surely was going to have something
1 that Dr. I think our Dr.was waiting to hear at what point along the way I
nad died). Well it was an awful risk., but staying in Ambato wae a worse one.

The third Dr.ordered a hypo set to be taken with ue and he told Ross at what
point of travel he was to give it to me, also he gave medicine to be taken along
the way at cestain towns. Well they kind of dressed me and set me up on the side
of the bed and Ross and Sanchez made a seat with their hands to carry me down
stairs to the car. I tried to stand to help them a little and I found I positively
could not bear my own weight. Couldn't stand couldn't help myself in the least.
Could hardly even hold on to them, and I had only bean in bed one week. V/ell they
got me in the car on the back seat of a seven passenger and Ross was on one side and

Sanchez on the other, then there was a container with a block of ice and the ice bag,

and I think most all the pillows and cushions and woolen blankets we own, and we
went, from Aabato to Quito it is an all day trip on the train. We made it in the
auto in less than 5 hours. 1 got my medicine at the appointed places. Didn't

need the ice bag, the air was cool riding, and some times COLD, at these pluceB
I was wrapped head and all in a comfort. Roes roused me to look out once and I saw
a sight that I thought in ay own mind right just then might be the last lovely
landscape sight I would ever see. It seemed we were riding right at the foot of
Cotopaxi. That is a snow covered volcanic peak. The snow seemed to come right
to the base of it and wa seemed very near. It was bitterly cola, of course we were
quite far away from it. And the sun was just netting in the opposite direction,
and I felt I had never seen anything more lovely. Somewhose along the way we went

over a bump and I came down a little harder on ny right side against Ros j, for I

had been resting against him, 4 if you can ’rest) going at une rac.e we wore going
1 a now pain presented itasIf in that right aide. Oh how it hurt, ao I had to

isan the other way and Sanchez began to suffer in place of Rosa, evidently ao at

least, for Rosa says if the trip was as hard on me as it was on him. he does not

know how I ever came thru it. Well 1 dare say it was, but hers I am. We know

Our Father was right with ua on that trip or I certainly would have died on the way.
But my temperture never moved the whole time, at every time of taking it and when
we arrived it was precisely the same as when we started. There w*ra remarkable
things connected with that trip, which won't be my last after all, God granting it.

We arrived in Quito about “ p.m. We picked up J. □. Clark at the Mission
House and went on to the Clinic, because I insisted that I Bhould not be taken to
the Mission Horae but to the Clinic, because there are two couple here in the home
two children and a single girl, and always others coming and going, and I did not
want to expose them, I wsb so sure it was the fever. Well we drove up to the
Clinic, but I found it waa only to get the Doctor, as J, D. ana the oi-hars at the
Mission had decided X was to be brought to the Home, tho it be Typhoid. They
knew what I didn't know that you can't go to the Hospital here if you have typhoid.
Tou have to go to the pest-house. If they had ask me I might have said the pest-
house then, but they simply took me to the Mission and put me to bed and the Doctor
began work. We have an exceptionally fine Dr. here. We all have confidence
in him. At the mission here, everyone has him.

I don't remember anything more about that night except hearing the
doctor say 'La pobra eenora’. Which expressed concern and deep sympathy for me.
From that time 1 seemed to relax, I had fought all the time I was in Ambato. But
here I was in Quito and here was the doctor and I knew that we could not do one
thing better or more. From that time on things were not any too real to me.

I s consoious of a wildness in my head, ofl" nearly freezing to death, of injections
b„*ng put in one arm and then the other, of a funny little nurse who tells me I put

up my hands in horror every time she came near me, and of an army of strange
doctors standing one at a time beside my own doctor and looking scared to death.

I don’£ know whether at that time ray doctor thought 1 was going to die or not,
but I am certain that those other doctors thought bo, and come of them thought
I was going to do it before they got out. They reminded me of young calves,
but they really were student doctors from the university. Our doctor is an
instructor there and he brought thesfc men, one a day, to see something they
will probably never see again in all their practice, that is if they have
a practice, some of them looked bo scared I wouldn't be surprised if they take
up another profession. You see I not only had Typhoid fever but I had it with
complications. And I guess X was a sight. I was yellow. I asked Ross
tne other day 1 how f yellow I was, and he said 'as yellow aa a mango 1 . Now ft
'mango* here is a very yellow fruit, and you still don't know how yellow I was.

But I was yellow. Uy oye balls were yellow and it seamed my eyes would never
open again, X practically could not open them, out the doctor would pull up the
eye lid every day to see how they looked and to show the other doctor. I had
a 'Consulting' doctor also. He came with the other doctor every aay for 16
days, and I almost detested him. I told the nurse I did not like him because
he smelled like tobaco and he wore a dirty shirt.

Then the freezing. I had an ice bag on ay abdomen and a cloth wrung
from ice water on my head, or tho other way round, however it seemed meoossary.

Then I had one complete batti every day and some days as high as four. I nearly
died during those. You s e I had chills with the fever and the higher the
favor went the colder I was. I never failed in making the guess that my fever
wa 3 up when I got awfully cold. Uy temperature was U>4 and yet I was cold.

Now the nurse: You see in all tho hospitals in Ecuador the nurses

are nuns dressed in all the roubw and chains and crosses and regain of tho nun.

Wall we wouldn't want one of those, and they are all there are, and tney would
not come if we wanted them, so there you are. I had to have constant care night
and day and a nurse wa3 positively necessary. ' 1 T 0 II someone thought of this woman.
She is Spanish but lias been in the States and there had training in nursing. Veil
she came, and It was a God-Bend to us. At every step of the way God has done
moderately marvelous and perfectly marvelous things for us.

Then the injections: I had so many of them that 1 nearly went into

a collar when I saw the needle coming. For some time, I don't know if it was
days or^wooka, it seemed if I should just let go myself a little more I would be
completely unconscious. ;(eU a good many times I remember of letting go like
that when they began preparing for a hypo, and I had the injection without feeling
it. But there wub one night I felt it, and I think I shall feel it every time
X think of it as long as I live. I have never asked why, but It must have been

an especially bad night, because the doctor had to put an injection right into

an artery. He started on my left arm, got the needle into ay arm right in the pit
where the arm bends at the elbo, got it against the artery, but could not pierce it.
he jabbed it three times and each time tire artery or the needle slipped and he oould
not get it in so he had to pull the instrument out and then went thru the same
performance with the other arm, he got it into tne artery there. Some things they
did to me seemed at the time most cruet, and yet I come thru so wonderfully. So
perfectly wonderful that I don't hold ar^ything against any of them, but I do praise
them* The doctor and the nurse and everybody worked hard with me.

And my eatsi The first three days I had, the first day some tomato juice,
the second Chicken broth, the third puree of peas.- - - - -I went to bed on the night
Oi Nov ■ £w>tiiv - - - - -The next mouth full of nourishment I had was on the day before
Christmas.

All this month lying between I had, water with lemon in it; pineapple juicej
and rice water. Not one ounce of nourishment in any of it, but it had its office
nevertheless. Well you can imagine how I looked when I first became conscious
that I had a body. I just wept when I oajr it. I never saw anything like it and
I have seen thin people. When you folk see a oow or a horso with the bones

showing no worse than mine showed I bet you never fail to say 'the poor thing
should be shot’. Actually I didn't look worth saving. But you ceo not a bite
of food for that long and the fever eating at iae, I was juot gone.

After the first week ana a half I think my worst suffering during the
case was from hunger. I can't remember of suffering much. The doctor asked me
one day if I remembered of suffering, and he says I won't over know what I did
suffer. But when I got to the place to know I was hungry, than I suffered.

Papa you sympatnize 1 am sure. And I certainly sympathize >vitn you a lot more
than I did at the time you ware sick. All those gallons of buttermilk you took.

I don't see for the life of me how you did it. My things to take were not ugly,
but all those weeics of tnem, ugg, and you with buttermilk of ail the wretched
things to drink. The person who successfully conquers the di<yt «£companyir*g a
case of typhoid is a martyr. (One of the aefinitions for a martyr is 'one tortured 1 .)

papa, remember your ~our craut? Can't find that in the dictionary.

But I have gotten so hungry looking for it I nave to stop. Itell anyway. Papa, I

believe there is a real future for you and myself if we work out what we might

term 'The N6W 0 abbage Theory', and put it before the meaical association in the
States. Now listen! Tne day I had my first bite to eat, this is what «as brought
to w\e, and believe me 1 ate it and literally licked the plate. On the plate was
a lsaf of cabbage,(everything well oooked ofcourse,) a little carrot, a piece of
cabbage heart, ana about two apieoe of b6ans, peas, lintoiB and barley. Then I
had a oup of the broth off these things. Can you beat that????? And 1 am alive
and really perfectly well and getting plum; again. But insanity of it, as it
seernsj the folk in the house nearly went crazy with the idea. But it was doctor's
ordor8) and I asked no questions. X think I would have eaten anything that day.

I felt X was dying for food.

They put me in a chair for the first time on January 2nd. My knees

might as well have been back in bed for all tne gooa bney did me, but it was not

so many days before X began to have strength and could take steps. Then the Dr.
said X could go on a regular diet and after that X made progress in leaps. X could
hardly help it. Rose got me everything good to eat that exists in Quito X think.

X lacked nothing. X had chicken and plenty of gooa butter, and even fish, which
is a luxury here, and everything nurishing he coula find, whether it was native or
foreign. He not only got it but he cooked it himself ana did a.i exceedingly good
job of it. He finished the case as nurse also. On New Years night,(X had then
best! in bad 5 wesxs, and was recovering,) they brougnt Mrs.iSaoigh in from the
Indian station at Ob&vaio, a six hours auto drive from here. She had pneumonia.

Of coarse she needed tne nurse much worse onan X did tfton so X gave her my nurse.
There is ns other. Mrs.Eamigh is xejtaiaaiag convalesing also. Have a sort of a
hospital might here.

3ir.ee X began to recover I have not had ono b&cicsot, It; has been
remarkable. And how thankful we are for whac. Sod has done for us.

Oh yes ;ny hair. Bobbed? My poor hair has boen clipped twice right
down to my aoalp, but ovon now already I think 2 must huve about ea much as the
great Julia '.fard from tho looks of her pictures in the papers, i will at least
be in atyle for a while, if not in comfort. The Dr. cut oy hair the first time
I suppose soon after we cane up hero, anyway it had to be cut. again beoauae I had
loads of fever after that, oo on New Years day Roue cut it again, my head was white,
just skin, but already you don't see skin anymore, and my hair is Svanaing up thick

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as can be, and ita natural dark chestnut color, papa. Rose aaya my hair ©tends
one against another just exactly like yours, eo thick. ( Now Papa Stull, Ross
don’t mean your hair, but Papa Beninghoff'a.)

Well this is mostly a book. But I must cay finally, that I am feeling
fine now. Really sometime* when I think of what has taken place in my body in
the paat two months it poems more like n dream. I feel so well now. I have just
begun to do things again, like writing. I have been writing at this and then

leaving it, don't think for en instant I wrote it all in flme day. I still take

eoae waiting on, but am getting on fine and am almost myself.

I eh ill not try to answer your dear letters end cards now. 1 had a
lot to road when I came to the reading stage, and I enjoyed them, tho they were
wdeks old. I will try anu write more fully on these subjects later, but will
mention© things received here ao you will know we have them. Please tell folks
we have received them and we will write the senders later when writing is a little
easier.

We received the Box from Mra.Springer's Close, your package Mamma, and thanks just
a million times, it was perfectly lovely. A $5.00 check from Geo.and Golda, the
chock marked duplicate. The check from Uncle Jack and Aunt Margaret, ana the
needles enclosed. Please call her up and tell her mother and tell her I will write

later. And Mother we got Aunt Mae's $J5-00 check a long time ago and I wrote her

a long twpewritten letter before I got sick. I am sure you must have heard tnat
by now, and them also. They must not expect answers too soon, we always write
immediately when something is received, because we are ao grateful for it and we
know It takes so long to get answers baok. Can't expect to hear in less than two

months from the time of sending a message. We have*the cheok from Ada and Charles.

Are mighty grateful for it. Mother and Dad Stull, we wrote that we had received
your check before I got sick. Last night we got the lovely handkerchiefs from
Deaa. So you see we are getting our things'’ We nay have missed saying anything
about something. X will have to go over the letters received later sometime.

But thanks so much everybody. Your gifts have been ao gratefully received.

Well this at least lets you know I am living and in pretty good
condition for what I have been thru.

Much love to all of you.

Ruth nd Roscoe.

Ambato, Ecuador, S.A.
Apartado, L.

Feb' 10th, 1927.

Dear Polks

We are all settled in Our old apartment again and are
most content to be here. The Mission used to rent this .vhole
building, but when the other Missionaries were sent to different
places they thought best not to occupy any part of it and for that
reason we were renting another apartment on the other side of town,
but we think that is where I got the Typhoid, so we just moved out
and back into our apartment-that w^-Jiave always lived in when in
Ambato. We like it here.

Ross has been some busy Boy, moving. I never went back
into the other house, since they carried me out. He backed things
up and sent them over here and we are all fixed up here again and
getting on fine. He has lived the past week with hammers and
screw drivers and pliers and all such things in his pockets.

I am feeling just fine, and eat everything I can get
hold of. I haven't caught up yet on my eatS

Well we have our Records. Mr. Reed brought them out
with him from New York. <* And they arrived in perfect condition.

Not one was broken or even cracked. And we didn't have to pay a
cent of duty on them. So everything was fine and we certainly are
enjoying them.

On getting back to Ambato after two months absence in
Quito, we find our White Kitten is a big white cat. Ross had
parked him with friends here while gone. They didn't want to give
him up again, but we have him and he is the prettiest and cleverest
thing. Affords a lot of amusement for us.

Well how is little Ruth Ann. The enclosed poem is for
Goldaj and for Baby's benefit. Clever isn't it.

Haven't had letters from you for some time, but maybe
some will cone today, there is a train 'up', but don't know whether
there was a boat in or not. We look for something on every train tho,
boat or no boat.

Hope you are all well and doing fine. We get the News
Papers right along and enjoy the home news. Find lots of things of
interest to us.

We are both feeling great and everything is alright

with us.

Lovingly,

Ruth and Roscoe

Ambato, Ecuador, S.A•
Apartaao L,

Msrch 7th, 1927-

Dearest Polk:

We got letters from you this week and we are always so
glad for your letters.

Yes I am well now, maybe I don't quite have all my strength
yet, but I certainly do feel good and get a lot accomplished so I guess
I am alright again* Rose is feeling good too. Right this minute we
are waiting for horses. We are riding the mountains once a week, giving
out reading matter to the people we can find, and at the same time getting
hardened for riding because we will need the preparedness a little later for
our trip into the Jungle*

Well we have our definite information now from the Hew York
Board and it is good news to us. You remember that in the first place
we applied for work in the Jungle of Peru, then we thought we were going
there, and just about two weeks before Bailing for S.A.we got word from
the Board that they could not send us there. There were three young
fellows going but they would not send any more. No one had been there
yet and it was right in the wilds and they would not send me, being a
woman. But now they have been there nearly two years, the same as we
have been here, and they are ready for e couple and the Superintendent,

Mr.R.B.Clark wrote to ue again urging us to join their Jungle Party there.

He suggested that he had already written to the Board asking for us and

felt that if we should ask for transfer from Ecuador to Peru that it would
therefore be granted, since we were considered for that place at first.

Well you can bet we wrote at once and asked to be transferred. And now
we have our word that we have been accepted and are to meet Mr. Clark in
Lima Peru about the 15th of June and go from there right across the triil
to the Jungle . We will be 11 1/2 days on this trail after reaching Lima.

We have one day by train, one by auto, 8 by mule and 1 1/2 by canoe.

We will be situated on £he Pichis river, this empties into the Ucayali
and this into the Amazon. The young fellows who are there now have cleared
5 acres of the forest and started a plantation and have built a hut. They
are using corn of their own planting now. Dad this will make another
news paper article when we make this trip. It will be quite an experience.

Well Dad in answer to your first question as to what the natives
do for a living, there are three distinct and fiifferent classes of 'Natives'
here. There is the pure Indian of the Oriente, for his living, he simply
hunts and fishes and runs his little plot of farming ground, after a very
crude fashion, and sometimes comes to the city with a bag of 100 pounds of
raw coffee which has been raised by some Spaniard out there who has a farm.
Then there is the Spaniard, or the South American white man as he is called,
only he isn't white, they are quite dark skinned, and for his living he does
not work so hard. They are positively opposed to working too hard. They
hold the government positions, are military men, doctors, operators of
stores and other occupations such as this. Then there is the third class
this is the Cholo. This is a race which is the result of the mixing of
the pure Indian with the Spaniard. They are the people who do the drugery.
They are the servants, and practically the slaves to the whites, so called.
They have little plots of ground sometimes, and others simply belong to some
man with a large Hacienda, beii^g the Spanish for farm, and they farm the place
for the Spaniard, tend the cattle and sheep, and drive the burrows to town
with their burdens of farm products. They are dirty and ignorant and super¬
stitious and down trodden by the people in general. There you have the three
classes in Ecuador and their occupations.

About those Indiana that atayed all night with us, they cam* from the
Orient® of Ecuador, and from here, being Ambato, it is 8 days walking,
and they walk it as they have no other way of coming, you can use horses
two days if you hav* them, but they simply walk it.

And your question regarding the distance from Ambato to Quito
was asnwered in my letter telling of our Auto trip there. We made it in
less than 5 hours but it is practically an all day trip on the train. That
was quite a ride, I think I never will forget it, and yet when I think if
it it seems more like a dream I have had. Those dayB are not very real
to me, sort of vague and unreal. However they were real enough.

Well regarding our Eats, Dad, we don't eat like we did in the
G.F.Stull home, on Springmill Street, but I can say we really do have good
eats. Here in Ambato we have the best chance for Eats of anyplace in
all of Ecuador, yes by far the beet, it seems we have been especially
privileged in being here all this time. We are righ in a valley whene
the fruit and vegtables are grown and all the year we have vegtables
of every possible kind nearly and always some kinds of fruit and part
of the time many kinds of fruit. Just now we aro having peaches, pears,
apples, wild cherries. Quinces and Strawberries. So we couldn't ask
for much more in that line could we. The plumbs have just finished,
but I made some plumb jam and have that and Quince Jell. We manage
very well with our eats. I make bread.

I suppose you had our letter long before this saying that we
DID get the records and we surely are enjoying them to the full extent.

It is a real novelty to folks. I think we will enjoy it more than ever
when we get into the Jungle.

Ivon we just got your letter and are glad for it. Mighty nice
of you to take time to write. We are sorry sorry sorry that Bertha ib
not well, but trust by this time that she is alright again, completely
recovered. Nice she could be with her Mother.

And Congratulations on the assignment of a rout)to you. You
waited quite a while for it, but that is the way good things come many
times, just work and wait and sure enough they arrive.

Rolla I hope you land a job with the P» 0.if you really want it
and I suppose you do or you wouldn't be taking the exams. Here ie to Good
Luck to you.

Saw in the Mansfield News Ivon that you were singing in public.

Good for you. What was the Solo you sang?

We were interested in the Radio news you wrote and would like
to listen in, Maybe a little later we will have them down here. Your lotter
is full of news and very interesting.

Golda we got the picture of your Kiddies. What perfect darlings
they are. Geo.is so dear looking and the Baby, oh Golda, what a Love she is.
Pat and pretty. She does look just a little disgusted with things in general
in her picture, but ofcourse she must have some serious moments, and you just
caught her in one in this photo I guess* Mother says she is so pretty and
nice. You say on the tail of your letter that the dress arrived. Well if it
is too small for Ruth Ann, why just do whatever you like with it, maybe
Zob Mina can wear it. We had it made at a Convent here. I am scared half
stiff when I go into that Convent, always afraid I may not get out again. But
there are thingB there worth going after.

When we read in your letters that you pray for us every day we know
more fully why it is that we enjoy such blessings down here in spite of
circumstances, and why we are brought back to health in spite of sicknesses
that are hard to recover from in this altitude. We do appreciate your loving
thoughtfulnewB of us.

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The notice you wrote about the Radio message from Rob Jones
made us know of another step in the blessing we have received, especially
in my recovery* Many no doubt heqrd his message and prayer who will never
think to pray for us, but at the same time there were certainly real
Christians listening in who did pray for us and some will be interested
and will continue to pray for us, and we shall continue to receive blessings
thru this* I am so glad you thought of doing that Golda, when you wrote
to him* Yes X wrote before that we had received his letter and answered
at once* We told him in the letter we would write again when we got into
the Jungle because then no doubt there will be more interesting things to
write about*

Well Golda stop right now and spank Ruth Ann for not looking
like you* She should have, but I suppose she is so dear that you don*t
really care so much who she favors* How we want to see her* Little darling
she will be about J 1/2 when we see her. You see we expect the term
in the Peruvian Jungle to be 5 years only for the first term, and we have
been here two years, so that will bring us home in three more years* Not
so bad,(but bad enough.)

Your letter is just fine too, they all are wnd we just delight
in having them*

We get our News paper right along and thank you again for it,
it is a real help to us in lots of ways*

We are busy these days. We have one more exam to get off and
want to do it before leaving here and then we will be thru with them.

This is enough I am sure for this time.

Do please everybody write* X wfote to Dess. She must be
very happy indeed with a new Baby Girl* Sure Kenneth wanted a Boy* but
he should be very glad to have a girl, and I bet he iB too.

Hope everyone is well and happy and doing fine.

Apartado 4G7*

Lima, Peru, S. A*
June 15th, 1927*

Dearest Folk:

Note that our address is Apartado 4 q 7 instead of 2178 aa we

wrote before* This is because the boys in the Oriante are having their

mqil sent directly to them there and not keeping the P.O.box in Lima any
more, so we use another box here, 4o7*

We left Guayaquil on the Buenos Aires at 12:10 Thursday night,

June £th. We were on the boat three days and three nights and were aa
sick aa death every bit of the way, just think of that* We were not sick
all the way from New York to Guayaquil when we came out, but we came
2nd class on this boat and that put ue right in the very back of the
Boat and we got a peculiar up and down and sidewise movement (especially
up) and I guess that did the trick, because we were SO sick. Just plain

sea sickness I guess, but sick we were* I feel now as tho I would rather

forfeit my furlough than ever board a steamer to come home, I guess X
will feel differently about it ^ years from now when X get my chance to
come.

Mr. Simmonda, our missionary here in Lima ihet us ana brought
us to his home and made us so very comfortable that we got right over our
seasickness, however all that night every time Ross would turn over in
his bed and I heard the ©wish of the sneets X thought it was waves of the
ocean and I got faintly sick, but by the second night I had gotten used to
being on solid ground and have been perfectly alright ever since.

Ross will probably be leaving soon for the Oricrrte with Mr^Clark
and another young man who is coming out with Mr. Clark for this same work,
and I will stay here in Lima with the Simmonds Family for some time. That
seems to be the best. They say it is pretty bad in the Orients especially
when there is no house, nothing but a hut, so they thing they will get fco
work on the house and build first and then take me in# Well that seems best*
So I will stay here.

It is quite nice here, we are practically on the coaBt, but it is
not hot like Guayaquil, in fact it is quite cool, in this season of the year
the eun only shines a very little each day, but still it does not rain, it
just does not rain here. But it is nice, and a healthful climate they say,
so I think it will be a good change for me and we were in the Mountains for
so 1 opg, 2 years without a change arid that is dreadfully tryirjg on the system
I am glad to be down. Ross will have a dreadful trip into the Oriante, but
when he gets there he will be low also and so it will be a change for him ala

I trust thia finds you all in the best of health, and that all
is well with you.

Will write more another iime and keep you posted on our moves
and doings. We are always so glad tio get letters from you.

Lovingly yours,

Ruth and Ross.

Lima, Peru, S.A*
Aparbado **178 j
J uly 17th, 1927-

Dear Mother and Dad and All;

Just received your three letters, the tv;o of June 28th, and one of the
jOth. Cane right thru in good time* Its just great to get letters from home and
I could hardly get them open fast enough to see what you had to say.

Yes Mother, we knew that Harold and Holla had been on the sick list and
are glad to know thru this letter that they are alright again, and that everyone
else is alright* We are always anxious to know how you are.

We received the letter from Golds some time ago, just before we left
Ecuador, and it has been waiting to be answered. We are glad for your letters
Golda, they are always so interesting, all about the kiddies* I guess Geo.Jr.
leads you a merry chase, with all his doings and sayings. And I am just sure that
Ruth Ann is the sweetest ever* How we would love to see her* Ruth Ann and little
Mina Zoe will be new members in the Reunion this year won’t they, and maybe there
are other nev/ ones also*

And Mother and Dad, not only did your letters arrive but the enclosures
also. Two $10.00 New York Drafts* Now maybe you think I didn't have a time of
rejoicing whan I saw those* I know we are warned not to 'love the tilings of the
world* or to ‘set our affections on the things of earth 1 , but it doesn't say that
when Twenty Dollars that you haven't earned and that you haven't expected, are
dropped into your lap, that you can't be just as happy as you please about it, and
that you can't take some time off to plan just what you are going to do with it.
Well it didn't take me long to plan what I would do with this. I am just tucking
away every cent of it to help buy some clothes for Ross when he comes out of the
jungle. Not that he will be partaking in any special luxury even at that, but it
is going to be a 'dire necessity 1 . Ross is going to be like the Colored preacher
on the Record, He will be in NEED; what will he need? Why he will need everythirg
from his hat down and from hi a overcoat in. Our outfit has lasted fine. Ross has
not had a new stitch in the past 2 1/2 years, and I have had only one new dress, a
white vail; but it is different with my things, I have made them over constantly,
turning them inside out and upside down and cross ways, but you can't do that with
men's things, and now Ross simply will have to have a suit, and a hat. When he
went into the Jungle he wore the only hat he has and I am picturing what he will
l^ok like when he comes out. He will be something to laugh at alright. One of the
boys who came out not long ago, was the funniest thing you ever aavr, the hat he
was wearing was heavily mildewed, and he had worn it every day and it mildewed
right on his head* Goodness, Roscoe’s suit won't stand much mildewing, he may
come out in palm leaves; well at least there are plenty of those.

So thanks a million times for the drafts, they are wonderfully appre¬
ciated.

Dad, I am leaving your 'Milage' questions for Ross to answer* Ross
don't trust me with figures when it comes to things like that. If you asked
ME how many miles it is from Guayaquil to Lima by steamer I would say a million
miles* You see X was sea-sick all that trip and tho it was only J days and J
nights, it seemed like an eternity to me. And Ross was sick too. Oh it was
awful* We would look at each other and laugh and the very next minute be just
nearly dying* When we landed in Lima I told Ross I didn't think I would ever go
home on furlough, that I didn’t ever want to board another Steamer or see more than
a bucket of water at one time, but I guess when my time comes for furlough I will
brave the sea again, I feel differently about it now since being on solid ground
again.

Thanks for the invitation to the Reunion. And if we could get there

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we would surely attend- I think you can count on us for the Reunion of 1950-
That is doubtlessly when our furlough will come. How very glad we will be to
see you all* Seems like a long way off, but if the next three years go as
uickly as the past 2 then we will manage alright I guess, there is so much,
here to be done, an, so many different kinds of work, and now especially going
into the Jungle will be an experience that would put pep into the most monotonous

life, which, by the way, our life isn't.

Monotony , however, is not the only hard thing* Our life and work here
ha© its drawbacks and hardships# just lots of them, for instance just now Ro^s and
I are separated by the Andeas Mountains and I don't know how many more barriers*

I don't like the separation# but Ross wouldn't take me with him# and it seemed
very necessary for him to go, so it just had to be*

Ross has gone on in to tame the tigers and make a peace treaty with
the Indians and incidentify build a house for me to live in. There are no houses
there, the boys have a palm leaf shelter that they call their home but none of

them think it is quite the place for me. And I am quite willing to wait a little

so as to have a house to live in. The other Missionary ladies here in Lima are
lauding me as being 'marvelously brave*, you see I will be the first and only

white lady there, but I don't consider it as being especially brave, you see as

long as I don't know what it is ireally going to be like it don't take so much
courage to go into it, and anyway I am not doing it without some fears and
tremblings. I think I shall be afraid of the tigers and also of the Indians,

I might as well confess it; any woman who said sh^ were not* would not be telling
the truth anyway, I don't think.

The Indians are exceedingly hostile being savages* They ara the Campa
Indians. I will give you an incident as told by Ray Clark, the Superintendent
of the Indian work. Ross and Mr. Cl ark went into the Jungle together and are there
now along with two other young men* Here is the 'little incident 1 *

"We were surprised by a visit of three Campa Indians, all of whome were painted
red and wore their usual cuzhma and feathered head attire* There were three men, one
of them being an especially tall, powerful-looking man, who could speak some Spanish.

We soon learned that the object of their mission was apparently the sale of two parrdte.
We bought the birds, largely to oblige the Indians, and paid for them with five yards
of red calico, after which we chatted with the one who could speak Spanish.

Not many days later we were curprised to receive from some friendly Indians a
short way down the river the information that our visitors of e few days back were
bad Indians and we were advised to beware of an attack. That in itself might not
have been sufficient to alarm us, but when a few hours later, on the came day, we
noticed a very large and suspicious-looking canoe paddling once up arid down the
river on the o^posffe bank from us we be&an to wonder what might be brewing. The
canoe w&e a very large one, capable of carrying perhaps ten or fifteen men, but
manned only by one man, - - -a most unusual thing, owing to the great difficulty
of such a large boat being handled by a single man* What increased our suspicion
still, more, was hearing the Indian on bending the river and after disappearing
from out of sight of our hut, blew a blast on a cow-hern - - - no doubt as a

signal for others to join him. It looked as if he had been spying out the land

from across the river and that ^the Indians who had visited us a short time
previously had come to see if what v?e had was worth trying for, the selling of the
parrot being a mere pretext. Whether this was so or not we did not really know,
but we decided to keep watch that night, ThiB we did, two at a time taking turns
to watch. We kept strong flashlights playing on the surrounding forests to show
any Indians who might be in sight that we did not intend to be taken off our guard*

They usually attack in considerable numbers, each armed with arrows to which are
fastened tufte of cotton saturated in oil. This cotton is fastened to the arrow

together with a piece of v/ood tied cross-wise at about four inches from the arrow¬

head. This secures the arrow stopping in a convenient position for the burning
cotton to set fire to the thatch of the roof into whichlit is fired- At the moment

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of attack, usually at about four in the morning, a shower of arrows is ahot into
the roof of the house being attacked by the Indians, who themselves are hidde% in the
surrounding forest, and in a few minutes the roof is ablaze and the inmates are
hurrying out into the open and, appearing in the light of the burning noof, offer
easy targets to the attacking Indians*

We, however, were not to experience any such ^errors that night, and nothing
more exciting occurred than the splash of a tiger as he- took to the river to cross
to the other side.

Had we known that night, however, what we learned later on, we should have
been still more alarmed; for the Spanish-s^e&king Indian, strong, big and dignified,
who had sold us the parrots a few days before was no less a person than the famous
Elias, the big chief of the hostile Indians of the hinterland*

Elias is well known in all the region as a dangerous man* He has killed no
less than six white men and boasts of it* He is the chief of the large group of
Oampao living on the per reaches of the Apurukiali River at the mouth of which
our station is situated* He commands the respect and can count on the loyalty
to him of all that region, and could either bring hie followers against us as enemies
or could, if he so desierd, encourage them to settle in our neighborhood and so
enable us to reach them with the Gospel more easily* His conversion would be of
incalculable value to our effort to reach this great tribe of forest-dwellers with
the Gospel of God’s love* Please pray for the big Gampa chief, Elias* 1

So- much for the Indians, now I guess you would be scared of them too
wouldnH you?

As for the Tigers, I suppose Ross will take great delight in hunting
them* He has some good guns* But for me I shan*t hunt them* Any tiger must
be reduced to rug form before he holds any charm for rae*

The fare consists of rice, mandioc flour, plantins and coffee, turtles 1
eggs, fish, many kinds of wild birds,deer wild hogs and monkeys *

To reach* our place, which is situated on the pichis River, this river
emptying into the Pachitea and this into the Ukayali ana this into the Amazon River,
you take the train from Lima, ride one day, tnen one day in auto, then 6 days on
mule back, and two more days in canoe. So do come and see us*

I am sure this is quite enough letter for one time*

No Biother I am not alone in Lima* I am living with a Missionary Family
here and am most well taken care of* They just could not be nicer to me* Indeed
it would be Impossible for me to live alone here* This place is inhabited by the
most un-Godly horabree you could find anywhere I guess, and the bad ones are not all
Peruvians either* The family here won't even let me go on the street alone, but
a servant must always go with me*. Well that is the way ft is in a place where
the Gospel ia not accepted*

I am perfectly well, and the last word from Ross says that he is enjoying
the best of health.

all of you*

We trust you will have a most uelightful Reunion and we send Love to

Most sincerely yours

NOTE;

Our Address ia Apartado 2776* Lima, Peru, 8*A*

Mr*Clark managed to secure this apartado again upon his return as he thought it
necessary to have one all our own, the boys having released it in his absence* But
we will get any letters sent to 4o7, only now send everything 2176-

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R.

Lima, Peru, S.A*
Apartado 2178,
July 2J, 1^27,

Dear Folk:

Received your letter of June 25th, thie week and as usual had
real joy in reading it*

Why indeed your Ruth Ann is smart with teeth and talking at
6 months* Just think 8 months. I suppose it hardly seems possible to
you either that you have had her 8 months. Yee we got the picture of
your Babies and wrote you saying so, maybe you did not get the letter.
It is very nice. Ruth Ann is not looking her happiest I am sure, but
she looks sweet as can be and she must be a love* Geo. Jr* looks the
part of the proud bi£ brother alright and he well can be. He looks
just great. He must be quite a boy* I suppose he thinks Baby Sister
is just alright*

^Spot* must have been the dog in the snaps with Geo* Jr* You
sent some with -Jr. and his dog, once on the table and once with hie auto
and another one. I suppose that was Spot* I sup] ose the new dog makes
up for the departed Spot however*

The Pheasants sound very interesting. What are you raising
(or hatching) them for George? Just for sport? They are such lovely
things, they are well worth fussing with if you have the patience and if

a person really likes a thing the bother of it don't seem to hard. What

do the baby ones look like, more like chickens or birds when Uiey are

babies? They must be exceedingly delicate. Well just keep at it and

you will probably have good results after all.

Mist be that Leo and his family are living in Golumbus, you spoke
of Bertha coming with them.

The Strawberries sound good. There are strawberries in Ecuador
but not like the heme ones, then you have to wash them to death to get the
sand off and cannot eat them raw but must cook them and the time you are
thru they don't resemble strawberries very much. I haven t seen any in

Peru there may be aome however*

Ofcourse you don't begrudge Ruth Ann her feed* How perfectly
glorious to have her. You are exceedingly fortunate Golda don't ever forgd
to be thankful for just that blessing*

Well yes our address keeps changing all the time but we will.always
get the mail from the old address because there is always someone t o forwarL
it to us* but ofcourse now it is Apartado 2178 and will remain this address
for some time. I get all the mail here and then send it right on to Ross* He
will be so glad for letters in there. I write him regular books.

Yes Lindberg's accomplishment was really a wonderful t^ing and he
deserves honors and I guess he is getting them alright. The folk here simply
gasped when they heard of it. It is wonderful too*

Roes seems so far away. Mail only comes twice a day. By going a day
in canoe from his place he can send me a telegram and then it takes two or three
days for it to come to me from there, but ofcourse that is much quicker than #

He was perfectly v/ell when I last heard.

Hope you are all well*

Love to all of you,

by mail
getting on alright!

I am feeling fine and

*

Lima, fern, A.

Arartado 2178,
November lat, 1J?27*

Dear Folk:

Well we are wondering whether the Reunion was the last of you all,
because we have not heard a word from any of you since the Reunion took place.

And that was way back last August. I suppose you have just been busy.

Since then it has been canning time and preserving time and house cleaning
time and I know it is a most awfully busy season. So we just tell ourselves
that you are all alright.

Ross is home again, has been here a little more than 2 weeks and I
am so happy to have him -back. He had a good trip out, and made it in less
time than it took him to go in. Coming home is a different proposition you
know, and then he did not have the luggage he had going in, and when he got
nearly to the end of the mule trail, he left the other riders and mules and
came on faster than the others and gained two days. Well I was mighty glad
to see him. He lost some of his weight in there or on the way out, at least
he was a bit thin when he got here, but I think he will soon gain it again.

Now I am going to give you some new3. Before the end of this month
Ruth and Ross will be the proud parents of an infant. Think of that i!iIIJ l
Did you ever hear anything so wonderful? At least it is wonderful to us, we
are both nearly consumed with rapture.

Don’t think that we have been selfish with our secret, it is not that,
but you know we have had some rather severe disappointments along this line and
we decided we would never share this kind of a secret until we were sure that
everything was O.K.and it seems safe enough now.

We arrived in Peru the middle of June and Ross put me into the
hands of two American Doctors, who are at the head of the British American
Hospital here, and are excellent Doctors. They gave me a thorough examination
and told him it was perfectly alright for him to go to the Jungle for J 1/2
months, that I was perfect and everything would be alright, so Ro.s went, and
everything has been fine. I have been perfectly well, and there has been no
trouble of any kind. I have gone to the Hospital regurlarly and all the tests
and examinations have been perfect, and I am still feeling just fine. Doubtlessly
before the end of this month I will be going to the Hospital to stay for a while.

I will have perfect care. There are American nurses there and everything is
done on the American order of doing things, so I will have the best of care.
jh Tfe are making no specif ications as to whether the arrival shall be

bfly or girl. When you have waited over 6 years you are not too choicy, but
rmighty glad for either so there will not be a shade of disappointment which ever
arrives, and if it should prove to be two of them, one of each, we would most
die of joy. We are so happy just with the anticipation that we are almost

walking on the clouds.

Well I have been busy sewing while Ross was away. I did not dare
be very active and so had lots of time to sew and sew I did. I wish you could
see all the pretty things I have made, just scads of them, and they are as dear
as can be.

Ross is fixing a Kiddie Koop right now, we bought it from a family
of Methodist Missionaries who have just gone home on furlough. He is putting new
screen on it and giving it a new coat of white enamel. I made a nice new
mattrees for it and it will be like new all over.

By the way, doubtlessly on the day of the arrival Ross will send you
a cablegram, so when you receive it if you will just please call up the
Beninghoffs and give them the news. You will get the cablegram more promptly
than they would probably, and you can let them know at once, I have just written
Mother about it all also, so they will be anxious to know.

Well that is probably enough news for one letter isn’t it?

• > r e hope you are all just fine, and are awaiting letters. Maybe
some are on the way now.

Lovingly yours,

Ruth and Ross.

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Apartado 2178,
Lima, Peru, S* A*
Jan*1, 1928-

Dear Folk:

Now just prepare yourselves to hear the Proud Mother Rave*

Yes we have a Boy, and his name is Fred David Stull, and he io a Peach*

Fred David for his two illustrious grandfathers. Never even considered
anyother name- Fred for you ofcourse. Dad, and David for my Dad* Hie name
is John David, and Pearl has a boy named John for him, so we use the David*

Now Dad, are there 'Freds 1 back of you and was it just Fred or Frederick?

We are not using Frederick, but just Fred, I like that better, and we never
heard you called anything more than Fred, and we both like it. Rosa thought
there gust much be a Fred Stull and so now there is* I guess he just missed
being Fred didn't he, and got Rosco© instead? Well now there is a Fred, and
Dad, you should see him he is an adorable darling.

He weighed 8 pounds and 1 02 -when born, lost some at first as they
always do, and when v/e left the Eospitfcl on the 15 th day, he had regained his
birth weight and had gained exactly one pound over that which was most breaking
the hospital records. SOME BOY they all said, and he is. His first week home
he gained oze, so he is keeping it up. He is perfectly well* Since the
first night home from the Hospital he has simply slept all night, just waking
eating time and grunting as a signal that he is ready if X am, and then
his Daddy goes and gets him and brings him to ine and we have luncheon and
he is returned to his bed and we hear nothing more of him until another time
to eat. He has been on a regular 4 hour scheduel since the first day home*

At the hospital it was 3 hours by day and four by night}, but the first night
home the little chap thought it wa still day and cri^d because we mude him
wait for the 4 hours, so for that reason I put him on a 4 hour schedule day
and night, and so since that first night, he has been satisfied to wait 4
hours. Oh he is a darling- Sleeps most of the time.

He has lots of dark brown hair, almost exactly like mine, ofcourse
we ean r t tell what it will be eventually. Eyes dark dark blue, but that is
no sign of what they will be, but they are beautiful, so clear and lovely*

I was mighty glad I was in the Hospital for his arrival. He has
a hard time getting here, came by the way of ether and instruments but arrived
in perfect condition, and I am alright also* I feel fine and have had the
very best of care. Ross told the Doctor he wanted me to stay at the Hospital
two weeks and more if it would do me any good* The Dr.said he was adding 5
years to my life by leaving me there 15 days instead of the customery 10 days

but that it would be of no advantage to leave me longer* So I stayed 15, and

now have been home nearly two weeks and feel just fine.

We got your lovely letters this week, with the two checks and the
Baby’s Dollar in it, and we do thank you so very very much for all* The Dollar
has already bought him a lively shel^ pink soap dish that his Mother wanted very
much for him, and he says thank you for it. I wish you could see him. I think

maybe he will look Stull. That will satisfy me. X am not sure tho just what

he will look like, but I can see a little of Roes in him, and maybe he will be
a Stull.

We also got a lovely letter from Ivon and Bertha, ha^e been them
regularly from them and think it mighty nice of them to write, we will answer,
just now they understand I know why we have neglected them. But appreciate their
letters immensely* Also Teddy says thanks to them for their Dollar, that too
will buy some special little thing for him. Oh yes and he will get more out
of the other Dollar, because the Soap Dish is a dollar in this money, and in
a U.S*dollar there are 2 1/2 dollars of this money, so he has more coming to him-
Will write again soon. We appreciate your letters and hope you are
all just fine now. We are fine and mostjiunspeakablyj happy.

Lovingly yours, Ruth, Ross and Teddy.

Apartado 2178*

Lima, Peru, S.A,

March 28th, 1J?28.

•

Dear Folk;

It is before breakfast, but you know I have a Baby, and it
seems I don't have go much time for writing anymore. Maybe I take too
much time for sleeping tho, anyway I seem to have less time than before
Teddy came to town.

He is so good and makes such a few demands, but even at that
there seems a day full of things to be done for just him every day.

Lots of little things to wash and iron and now I am shortening all his
petticoats and dresses and that is quite a task. I love to do it and
am so glad I am well and can take care of him.

He really gets a bit dearer every day. I am enclosing a picture
that was taken the day he was two months old.

He has been perfectly well always and is gaining right along
and doing so nicely. His hair is growing so fast and is soft and pretty.

I had a letter from Golda and you tell her I am going to answer
it soon, but I don ! t think I can get it jff on this boat, it will probably
have to wait until next week.

Also have two letters from Ivon and Bertha, and I will answer
those just as soon as I can possibly get to it also. We always appreciate
all your letters so much.

I find I have a letter from you Mother written Jan.9th, but I
think I had answered it, in it you are telling about Harold 1 s accident,
and you mention that you had wri ten about it, yea we had gotten the
other letter but after Ross had written saying we had not heard about it,
so we have both your letters in which you tell of it* We are ao glad
that Harold is alright again. Yes that could have been so serious but
how glad we are that he is well. You ask in this letter too whether

had received the drafts you sent before Christmas, and we wrote just
after getting them to say they were received and wonderfully appreciated
so you hau that letter probably just after you sent this letter mentioning
it* It takes so long for letters to get back and lorrh doesn't it.

We are getting ready to go into th# Jungle before so very long
and are packing up our things and getting rid of the things we don't want
to take in. We have some things we have gotten here that we may want to
use in convention work when we get home on furlough and we are afraid if we
take them with us into the Jungle or leave them here they will be moth
eaten or get destroyed in some way so are sending a package of them to
you and another package almost like it to my folks. Now we will be glad
if you will open them up and use them as tho they were your own* We have
used them here and you can't hurt them, so if you care to at all use them
in any way you like*

You will have to pay customs on them I suppose and you tell us
how much it is and we will fix it with you. We will want to know just how
much they charge on £hem so as to know whether it is too expensive to send
things that way or not. We might have more things to send later if it ie
not too expensive*

All these things are made by the Indians* The green and orange
is a scarf and they use them here to wear. Then the little neck scarf the
men use for neck scarfs just like the men at home.

The blue and white is a table cover , also the Indian women
wear these for scarfs*

The grey one with colors is used for a rug or for on the
back of a sofa or chair, that is how I used it*

The hairy one is made of llama hair and they use those
for scarfs or for on sofas or beds.

If you don 1 ! care to have them around just stick them some
place to keep*

Thanks very much.

Lovingly

Ruth, Ross and Teddy

Cahuapanas,

Via Pto.Beraudez & Lina,
’Peru, S. A.

May 9th, 1928,

Dear Polks

Well this is just a tiny note to tell you bye bye
for a while. This is Wednesday evening and Friday Morning
early we start on our long trip to the Jungle. We will be
nearly two weeks on the way and it is a big trip sure enough.

If we just miss a mail which we probably will it will
be a month before we can get another letter back out to you
from there and then two weeks for it to come out and three more
weeks for it to get to you so don’t worry if you dont hear
from us for two months from now.

We are sure we will be alright. We are perfectly well
and Teddy is strong and well and we will be just fine.

We go by mule for from 6 to 8 days and you know tnat is
^piite a drag befiide that we have one day train one day auto
-hd one day launch so altogether it is a big trip.

You know how busy we are with getting everything
ready so will just make this a note for now.

This is the adress you will use for us now.

Tell Ivon and Bertha we get their letters and do
certainly appreciate them and will do better in answering
themwhen we get settled in the Jungle.

We send love to all of you and hope you are well.

■’-The next you hear from us it will be from the
JunJLe and we will probably have lots to tell then.

We are sending you a picture of Teddy. This was
taken when he was just 4 months. It is just a snap enlarged
a little. It looks like him. But his coloring is so pretty
that the picture falls far short of showing how nice he is.

His eyes are so very blue, dark blue, and his mouth as red as
can bet- We think he is just lovely.

Love to all of you.

Ruth and Ross and Teddy.

Truly,

f Jahui'.pant.«i, Via Fto . Berrauuez y Lira,
Peru, 3. A.

June 12th, 1?28.

v Well we re in Cahuapanas on the Fichis River, but ho* did we get here. Ihet
ia a big story and if I did it justice I would have to write a boot about it. Life

has been so busy since arriving here that I have had no time at all to write. Tou see

vthe house is not built here .nd we are atiil living in the pa m wood house. That ia we
are there all day and wc sleep here in the new house at night. Th re ia just one room

finished and Roas and Baby a*d I sleep there. Right now my typewriter table is a box

set up on end. There ia one man hammering naila and another planing right ^r« S feet
from me and it is rather districting to try to write but I will do my be t.

V I wrote about the trip from Lima up and over the first ridge of the Andeas.

We go so high there that the air is too thin to keep you breathing, normally. Teddy
had to have oxygen given him. The Doctor watched him and mubbed hie head with mentho la¬
tum and after we had reached the top and had passed thru the tunnel that goes thru at
the highest place he was alright again. Vie arrived at Aroya, this is as far aa the
train take* you coming this way, se there we got in a bus, which s*ias really only a
light Dodge truck, and put all our worldly belongings in the bqck of it and started for
La Merced. At first I thought I could not go on. The day had been strenuous seeing
Ted growing more and more faint as we went higher and I myself did not feel too well.

The Auto road was so narroy that it seemed the machine would not have room, the turns
were so sharp that some places they had to back to make the curve • Then also it got
dark after we were out about one hour. Iny onc say it was better because I could not
see the dangerous places. I simply lost my breath. I felt I must scream but I didn't.

I was holding Baby as I had the best aoat in the truck. I sat Jith the driver and Ross
and Ray Clark sat in the back of tho truck. Y/hen you are holding a baby you don't
s ' There w turn not much vay to bract myself and holding Ted n the aharp turns was

l more than I could do many times. When we arrived at iaraa after about J hours in
the truck my sleeves were in holes, I had hold Ted so hard and he rubbed around so in my
arms. That is ho was thrown around like that. Ror hie part he was quiet. Seemed to
-hink it was alright whatever happened. I never supposed any Baby could be so good
under such hard circumstances as Ted was on the whole trip. das never sick one day
and was just as good and ha py as could be- How thankful we wee® for that. A number
of passengers were doing just as we were, going on to La Merced by tiuto at the same time
we were and the machines were rather close to one another, that was si thing about 5 or 6
miles but the roads were so zigzag and winding that many times after it was dark, it woufi
look exactly as tho a machine was coming right straight for Ua. Here again I nearly
screamed a couple of times. It seemed as tho we were surely going straight for another
car. We could only sea the light and suddenly the headlights of another car Would
flash up in front of us, but always it was across a ravine. I knew this must be true
as the traffic can only go one way on th^is road. One day you go one way and the next
day you go the other. This is because the road is so narrow that it is impassible to
pass a car, but the curves ware so sharp that it would seem you were surely going to
run right Into another car. bell th se things were a bit nerve racking.

It was cold and I had to keep Ted wrapped in a wool blanket. We were so tired
when we arrived in Tama, I dropped on the bed in the hotel when they put Ted down
and wept. I got ready for bod later and said I would not eat anythiaig. I was spent.

But after getting Ted ready for trie night and doing the many things that are necessary
aftor such a trip I got over my tirede at feeling and decided to eat, so I ordered, or
rather Mr.Sinmonde ordered a bowl of broth for me and I ate it and then I ordered the
regular su per what ever it might be they were serving, so I had it ell and ate it, and
b time I was ready for bed I felt fine.

We had to stay in Tama J days waiting for our freight and I was glad as it
rested Tod and a 1 of us after the hard trip up the hill and got us in better condition
for the mule trip.

Well I won't start that in this letter, but in the next.

V'

Here is another Carbon letter, but when X write I
write with carbons or I would never get word to all of you*
Busy as bees down here.

same

lion

Please tell Golda we got ner letter on the last
mail launch^ and received also the draft enclosed, this was

with her letter of, well-1 find she has no date on ^t, but

it was about June 18th I suppose because it came in the
mail with Mother’s letter of that date* Tell her a mil
thanks for it, we do appreciate it* Won 1 ! get a letter to
Golda this mai^ , so you tell her, so she will know we got it*

I

W© are well* Teddy has two &eeth and got them without
much trouble* He is darling ofcourse and we are so ha A py
that we have him* He makes fun for everyone on the Station*

The' Indians love him, and he seems to like them also*

All the rest of the news for just now is in the
carbon letter, eo you will get it all there*

Lovingly,

The Stulls*

I * '

Cahuapnnas Via Pto-Bermudez
and Lima, Peru, S. A.,

July 1?th, 19£fi*

Dear Polka:

All the describing and explsbi ng I can possibly do will still
not give you the iilaa of what the Pi chi a Mule Trail is like. They tried
to explain it to roe but I found I had not had the faintest conception of what
it reully was*

At one time a train of rallies crossed the trail when it was nuudy
and each mule put his feet in the holes made by the feet of the mule ahead.

After that train %r ain of mules crossed all doing the same thing, using

the holes made fcy the first mule until now these have become ditches reaching
across the width of the trail and in many places are so deep that the riders
feet would be in the mud if left hanging. These holes are filled to the top
with thin mud or thick sticky mud. The nules have to be persuaded to start
into a stretch of this kind of road because they are not sure of their footing
as you can never know how deep these holes ary be* We went for hours over
this kind of road every one of the 8 days we were out.

It seemed the nearer we got to the top of a mountain range thews' ore
mud there was and the deeper end stickier those holes were. At times we went
up a rather steep incline literally climbing from one hole to another. They have
callod the oe places J cobs ladders, and they are almost ladders* Then we
found them again aa we came down the mountains and that "as worse than going up
as it was so ateepo

% heart would nearly fail me when I would see the lead mule
starting to apis h thru one of these stretches of trai 1 because I knew that
in a little bit the next mule bearing ny husband an$ baby would be into it
and then most any tragical thing was capable of happening. Many times I
felt that the mule that was carrying those two was held up and guided by
nc other than the hand of the Lord. Rose could not pro orly manage the reigns
as in difficult places he needed ipLl his attention and strength to balance and
rotect the Baby* I saw them go thru places where the other two mu/lea had
all kinds of difficulties and yet them ule carrying those two^ would steadily
pick his way thru and get them safely across without s.qy hurt*

- Once when we «*ere going thru ce me especially deep holes my mule

dropped into a place with both front legs where it was so deep that it
threw him on hie head ,nd neck and of course threw me. I landed in a sea of
thin mud* Of course as quickly as I could get onto ay hando and knees 1
began crawling v not waiting to gain a footing because I knew the mule was
apt to flop my' way as well as any other way* Ewery way you looked,there
was mud udd absolutely nothing else but mud so it wasno place to stop to
qttiet nerves. I simply h.d to get into the saddle agi i n mud and all and ride
on for hours more* By the time we got to a stopping place the sun had

dried the mud and it was as tho I was in a plaeter cast* ^ The lacings in
my riding breeches and boots were cemented in and the coating of dried mud
had to be cracked and knocked off before I could get out of my riding things*
Ross then took my boots an hlothing outside and pounced them against a pole
to limber them up so 1 could get into them again in £ho morning. I had other
olothing but you couldn't pack such things as they were and the only thing was
to wear them again until they resembled doth and leather again.

#2

Our trip *ae mad a much easier bee 1 use we had verylittle rain.
Sometimes ehen our men have crossed the trail it has rained in torrents
day after day. They aay we had less rain than any of tueu have ever had
which was a wonderful thing for us with the Baby. It only rained a few

time* in tha 8 days and then for only a short time but we could see by /y.
th t what it would have been if it had rained like it generally does. Twice
in those few times it nappeneu that the rainiiig was going on when it was uima
for Baby*s luncheon. Well it simply meant stop and feed him. I had always
fed him on a 4 hoar ahheduie and I have never varied more than possibly b
minutes and generally not one minute with the result that he is just like
a little clock, lie does not cry for food between times, but when it is the
4 hour period if his food is not forth coming he makes hie wants known.

So it was understood that at 10 a. la. and Z p. m. we were to stop to feed
him no matter «heie we were- We.il when it rained ofcourse it was quite
possible it would rain all day as it generally uoes so We just stopped.

If t: or® was no rock to sit ou then tney would put down a rubber poncho
and I would sit on that and tas,e ay little son. and then they would put
another rubber poncho oyer us and tnere we ..ould be with the rain pouring
do -in. iVe would manage to take food ourselves at theoe stops also so as
to save time because'we simply had to travel as uard as possible and make
our stops as short as possiol© so a* to reach a Izuabo before dark. There
*u* no place to stop in between- so simply had to make the stopping plaoe.
Otherwise it was just wild mountain growth and impossible to spend the
/light in it, and iaost as impossible to travel in tna dark. I :" ihen I ..ould
think that it might get dark before we would arriva I would simply shudder
and would urge the mule on even tho it was torture to keep going* 1 8o
while I fed the fiby, Boss would feed me and at tne some oime take food
himself* .Ve tried to m^dce thess stops where there »tn a mountain stream
so we would have i'ater, and hr. Clark would climb up or down as the case
would be and get water for all oi us. We would eat and drink and adjust
our caddies and saddle bugs and mount aou press on as fast as possible.

Cur dear little Baby. then we would take hi/a from his father* s

arm? he would kick and coo ait. laugh and be as happy as could be. The

Lord simply kept that little thing from moment to moment or he would never
have come thru that awful tri*. so safe and well. Ho tfaa never harmed at ail.

I rode last and it was for me to urge hot only ay mule but the mule
in front of iae, because Boss could not urge him much on account of managing
tho baby. So I curried a long stick, sort of goad and with this I kept urging
the mule ahead. I kzie» re die not dare lag or wo would not make tire T&abo
and I would ur,,e the mules almost feverishly sometimes, I had such a horror
of being overtaken by the night. It is not easy: to go. d the mule ahead always

ho io generally just a little too far ahead, but rfhun I could I would goad him

a couple of times. Once iihcn are *ere on a good stretch of path I thought it
was a gooa tine to make up for the places mhere we had gone so slowly bo I
got clone to the mule ahead *&k 1 and goaded him four times instead of the ous-
tomary two. TFell that was juct two too many. Us stopped on hie tao front
feet and began a /accession of swift kicks with hi a two back ones. I was
nearly paralized .ith fear. There was that mule with my husband and baby
or. hie back and him kicking life's that. They sometimes keep it up until
they have rid themselves of every oit of their loud before they will stop
kicking. But fortunately this one did not follow the general rule. I
goaded him only twice at a time after that. V^Koss bin, ly sat the brute and
held his child until ths mule was thru kicking then we .rent quietly on,
thankful that another near tragedy hid been avoided.

#5

One night it did get dark while »e were etlll out in the forests.

We had had e very hard road that day and simply could not meke it. We had
•o go on. There was nothing e? ee to do. Just as it was getting dusk we
cane to a suspension bridge that in not surporei to be very safe and we were
to go over one at a time. Mr.Clark gofbvor and then Rons started over. Ky
mule traa a wicke’. brute and vou 1 d not wait. I did everything I could, and he
whirled and started back for the beck trait «nd I knew that would not do and
I got him turned again, and if you have ever ridden a South American mule you
knot? about how much you can do with one. Well he simply would start after
the other mules and when Ross we 3 only about half way over the swinging
bridge he started over, stiff legged and jerky. I could sinply feel the
bridge letting go. When, I saw Ross's mule crawl off onto solid ground X

signed ft sigh of relief V'l felt mine would get over el right, but it wne
seeing him and our baby in danger that nearly killed me.

— ~ Well it got darker and darker as we went on. The road wee

terrible. The and and holes and rocks end eteep narrow places just awful.

How 1 prayed. There wae that mule ahead and rsy husband and baby. It was

not whet ray mule might do. I felt no concern about myself, but it waa that
mule ahead. Ofcourso it was arranged that Roos had the be 3 t r.A strongest and
steadiest mule on account of having the baby, but in the dark he oould not know
when he was to go up or down, where there was a deep hole or bad mud. He simply
had to trust his nule to get him thru , and had to feel for the ulighteyt sign
of what tiie animal wae going to do so as to balance himself and his precious
burden. I will never forget the horrors of that ride in the dark. tie rode
for nearly two hours in the dark. And when it is dark in the for esc It is
dork. The trail is only a narrow path thru dance fore ate and it is as black
as midnight. When I couldn't stand the tension any lo-iger I would weep.

Of source ouietly so that Ross would not hear. He had all he eculd 1 s ntge
without having e:. . concern about me. I *ii*>oly committed us all to God,

let ay mule take his own way for it and kept my balance the beat I could.

Several times during those black swful hours Rocs called back *ome 'precious
promise' from his store of Scripture verses, and how they did help.

■— Firmly about half an hour before we reached the Tipabo a slender

new moou climbed up above the trees and oh how welcome was that bit of light
on our path. It was nos. enough for us to make out the mud holes .ut we
oould moke out the mountain wall end the space that neant a narrow place and
we knew which way to lean in trie saddle. ^

Vfhon a small ligat finally flickered at the edge of a small clearing
and >»e knew we hud reached the long looked for Tajnbo I think I would have :->unk
into unconsciousneca if it had not been I knew I must hurry out of the saddle
and get my baby from his father's tired aching eras and get him undreseeo and
his little weary body bathed and soothed aid onto as comfortable & bed as I
could make for him, fee, a him, and get someone to wash the things that it was
moo scary to wash, or, to it happened in many places when there sas no one to
wash ther Z hod to do it myself.

^ O ■ j finally when I would finish and have things ready for *lree sing and

Starting igain in the mornil% nd would fall asleep I would think again I was
riding, and if Baby would stir in his iittic ha.ua ock that wae always swung
beside ay bed and I would begin to thick il\ay half sleep of getting to him it
would seen to eo I must get tcroee a steep reel pice before 1 oould reach him.
Such a ,roci ice a-j we saw every day on he trail. There wore places where
the mountain streams came down, some plaoes it would be a steep falls where
it would drop thousands of feet cutting a gorge in tne side of the mountain
and dropping almost straight down almost as far a» you could see do m down down,
there would be a tiny narrow bridge of logs and stones built across for the
mules to walk over. I never got over loosing my breath when I would see
Roacoe's mule crossing one of these, and this is what I would see nigh, after
night when 1 would reach for Baby in hie hammooic.

That is not all that happened, but this is enough at one
time I think. I way write some more of what seems interesting to ne
a no tiler time. But we are here in the Jungle now and glad to be here
where we can give the Gospel to these Red Men of the Forests. They
are superetitioua and their lives are as dark as a starless night, and
just now for the first time in their exist nee the rays of Go3, el light
are beginning shine for them here in these dark forests which are
indeed the andfi'of the earth

#

When you are praying for the success of Go& t .el work, pray for
us. To oven exist in the Jungle requires a struggle and we want to
live 'more abundantly 1 for the service we have come here to render, for
tho Christ wo wish to serve.

T

Truly and lovingly yours,

Ruth and Roseos and Baby Stull*

Cahu Lpane ^j

Via Pto. Be mu. oa and Lima,
Peru, E.A.

July J 1st, V'2S.

Dear Folks:

The trail *as especially hard Sunuay morning and we had atarted out
tired because Saturday had been a long etrenuous day on the road-

rno

usual exuberance of wpirit m a laoLing, there waa no conversation, there
was no song, and ne roue for hours in silence, each une occupied *ith his
own thoughts. My thoughts were on thr two rider a on the mule ahead of mine,
an they were every minute of every day that we were on the trail* This
morning the mud Wes bo deep that the rumals could scarcely get out of the
he lea, then there would be a stretch where the trail was nothing more than
a very narrow ledge of rock along the mountain *ali« At place© there had
b en a land slide froir way up the mountain and it had nearly t oxen away
the trail as it slid on by down down the mountain leaving only the

narrowest rath where the mules hr.d to s&Ik* When I would see the ijiule
beering my husband and baby starting across ono of those places my flesh
seeded to turn cold and shrink* The path wos narrow, it was rock and it
was slanting out* Sometimes the mule 1 © foot wculd slip and send n piece
of rock down over the precipice where it would roll hundred© and hundreds
of feet before there vme anything to stop it, ^ nd sometimes the mule 1 ©
foot would ©lip over but at theco time© it would racm the other three feat
would hold and ha would regain hia footing und go on, but it would leave
me breathless.

Hour after hour wa* filled with this Icind of experience© and again
end again I would find the muscles of ray face drawn and tight and I
suppose my nerves were the snrae way beeeuse from tic© to tin© there would
a© a burst of tears that would seen to relieve the tension* Of course no one
but God knew of these tears, but He did know, and aa we were crossing a
narrow place above n deep gorge He sent a flock of tiny green parrots
flying across just singing as tho their little throats would burst with
the joy of living and chattering in open defiance of the gaatly depth
of the gorge benerth them and the Lord reminded me of His statement
*Faar ye not — ye are of more value than many sparrows- 1 * It made
tne rest of the day and the rest of the trip easier*

Our Baby had no fear* He rode hour after hour supported in tho
curve of his father 1 a am or lying in the little hammock, aecsoing to
notide everything we passed and reaching for the branches \nd leaves
as they would brush by* Generally I couldn't sa© him but I could hear
hie cooing and sometimes when he would become very tired and sleepy
his little melody ^ould get tangled up end he would cry and at these
time© it ©earned I must get to him and have him in my arms to comfort
him nnd lull hiw to sleep * But there was no time for stopping*

We always had to press on to roach the Tambo before dark and on and
on we would go and how I would long to get to s$y oaby* I liaoned myself

to a mother hen I once saw nearly going wild because she could not get
to her fluffy little babies who were balancing thara^elvas on tho edge
of a dangerous looking drinking pool- Th-<t is how I felt there on
that other viulo just out of reach of my baby when he needed me, but
I couldn't get to him so I would sing *Roak-&-bye-baby* to the tune
of 'Blessed Assurance" and he would go to ©loep and rid© up am down
Hills and in and out of mud holes and nothing seemed to outlier him*

It was remarkable how contented and happy he was all the time.

# 2 .

Tha cany difficult thing* on the trail do not out number the wonderful
things. I had never even imagined auch perfect beauty. I h .ve never
fcead description that pictured the grandeur of thie scenery. There seams
no way of telling it, it la so immense. At place* on the trail you look
up moat a* far as eye will carry and aee the mountain wall still rising up
u - u F , and you drop your eye* and you are looking into the gorge that seems
almost bottomless. At every few turns in the trail e mountain stream comes
dashing down from somewhere up above and splashes under the bridge which is
only two log* with atones and dirt thrown on them to make them lees slippery,
and on it goea on it way down into the gorge and to the large river tiiat
flows thru the caSon that we follow for hours. One day we had to cross
the large river and t.,*re was no bridge at all. The bank down to the
water was very steep and the mules picked their way down going side ways
sometimes and dropping from one large rock to another and finally got us
to the waters edge. There is a great deal of uncertainty about going
out into a large river on a mule's back and I didn't feel just too'much
at ease. The bottom was covered with medium sized rooks, there wac a
steady but not a dangerous current, and the river was wide. We more or
leas trusted the mules to find the right course over-as they don't care
to swim If put to the water with their burdens so we knew they would find
the pla.es where they could keep on their feet if there were any ouch
places. They did manage it.\ Ofcourse we were soaked well aboye our
boots but we soon dried as we went on in the sun. Ur. Clark went over
ahead a took pictures of us as we were crossing so if thove pictures are
good we *ill send than so you can see for yourselves. The river was
beautiful nd the experience exceedingly interesting.

There ore millions of trees, plants, vines and foliage of every
kind. As se would Id across the rivar to the mountain side on the
other side it looked like a gorgeous piece of tapestry in greens and
here and there a d ah of orange and red and purple./ Whit a fine pattern
it is with large loaves, palms, ferns ^nd trees of many kinds.

All along the way there are ferns like we have in the house
at home but sometimes they are twelve feet high. /_ Some are fine and
some are coarse heavy ones, but all beautiful.

Several day# the b ink# were covered with white violets. The
flower very much like the white violet at home but the leaves narrower
and more off a vine than a plant.

The hills are full of wild begonias. Beautiful ones. X think
I saw every kind I have ever seen in our cultivated ones at home. Be saw tie
kind you have in the hours# growing like great out of door# shrubs. Strong
hardy things, but the same delicate linings and shadings of the much culti¬
vated ones.

I had looked forward a bit uneasily to going down the 'canon of
rocks' they told me of. It was a treacherous and yet a beautiful place.

It was literally a cahon or rocks and we traveled nine miles constantly
going down with our pathway a narrow gutter of rooks, smooth ones, pointed
ones, rolling ones, all kinds of rocks, but not one bit of earth. Just
rocks. And the gutter that formed the path was also carrying a stream of
water. What slipping and splashing. And to make It worse it rained
and there we were, water above and water beneath, and there we were going
down down, with the mules slipping and catching themselves only to slip
again. It was beautiful thru that stony cafion, but we were glad to
be on earth again. V'

Se are rail and very happy. We send you lovec Truly - Stulls-.

C&huapanaa

Via Bermudez nd Lima,
Feru, South America.
August l4th, 1928.

Bear Folksi

Late one afternoon we were quietly riding thru the foreet
when something c&uaod me to look back. I can't remember that there was
the slightest sound but something made me turn ar..d there a few rods behind
me, for 1 rode last, were five Indians following us. A strange cold
sensation ran up my spine and made me feel a little queer. Ofoouree I
knew that sooner or later I was going to see Indians. I hud come all the way
from the United States for that purpose and to bring the Sospel to then. But
I was not quite prepared to find then slipping up behind me on a silent
forsaked trail in ohe heart of the forest like that without any warning.

Tney were all painted, one wore a 'corona' with two long feathers waving over
his head and three of them carried bows and arrows that wore much longer than
tney were nigh. Thst is the qrrow stood mucher higher than the indian himseli.

We had seen nothing for miles and miles nor uid we see anything

the rest of the afternoon tuat showed that the region was inhabited. These

Indians hiae tnsir duelling places as carefully as do the wild animals. They
do not wish to be discovered. *

They followed ua for a lor\g way hut only one caue cloae enough to
Bpeaic to ua and he made us know that he wanted matches. Then they continued
to follow us with no more requests and finally turned off into the forest. They
meant us no harm and doubtlessly their idea of following us waa rather with

the idea of being protected bhanaelves, as they live in fear of the Campas,

these indiana being Araueixas. The Uaatpns paae thru the e regions and are
the dreaded foes of other tribes. Traveling close to us these Amueixas
probably felt more safety. We saw very few Indians aa we traveled but we
don't know how mai\y saw us.

Neither did we see maysy wild animals. The wild animals are
very wild and have themselves well hidden before a traveler gets a chance to
see then. At different times »e would catch a glimpse of parted bushes and
hear the rustle as something would hurry away into hiding. Many places we
traveled unuer overhanging ledges that always suggested looking up ae well
as around. The first few days I was a bit startled a few tines when a leaf
the size of an umbrella would fall close to me. We found the trees dropping
these immense leaves all along the trail and we became acustomed to then, but
at times even the mules gave signs of concern when the shadow of one of these
great leaves danced about on the trail just ahead of ue.

One day as we rounded a bend we came upon a large anake sunning
his great length on a smooth slope at the side of the trail. The lead mule
gave the warning of the presence of an enemy before we saw the snake.

Pinally after eight days of pushing into the forest on mule back
we came to the Fichis River. Here we said a final farewell to mules. ?/e made

no ceremony about it. We were glad to know we were not to mount the beasts
again the next morning. After riding one of then for eight days you know most
of his meanesses, and they are not few, and you shed no tears at the thought
of gi ing him up for another means of travel. It is not a matter of choice.
You simply must leave your mule as the forest from here on ie a dense dark
tangled jungle with no $rail thru it. The river is the highway.

!a them^or^ng all our^baggage^was^loaded inU >^

canoe I ever saw. Se three g ^ center of the canoe.

the can^owner took the stem*£*
d^wn stream. We traveled this way from early morning until sell

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7 * 2 .

The oanoe was all one piece hewn from the trunk of a very large tr as.

The Indians make these.

How hot it was with the jungle heat preying in from every aide and the
B un beating down on us and reflecting from the water below. I ca "ied a heavy

oiled paper paraecl and kept it over Baby and ayeelf the beat I could. I never
felt such intense heat from the sun's rays, it was almost unbearable. The poor
little dog was almost overcome. It was impossible to shade him all the time.

T.e did the best we could and dripped water on him from time to time to revive

Ihe river was very low and again and again the man had to jump into tna
water to lighten the load and to push the oanoe to get it thru the shallow plaoe.
Then we care to a place where the river was very doep and the current swift and
dangerous. There was a sand bar here and they told us wo would nave to get out
and walk on this as It was not safe to stay in tao oanoe going thru this current,
that if they could manage to keep the canoe upright with the baggage alone they
would be doing well. I was quite willing to get out. A loaded canoe is a
very tricl'y thing, and holding the baby and keeping my balance with the thing
tipping thia way and dipping that way and the water almost on a le vet with the
edge of the canoe was ft bit breath taking. I didn't like the canoe ride any

too much, end yet the scenery was beautiful. fle saw great water birda and
alligators. Ther* wore beautiful places whore other rivers flowed into our
river, but gain this brought with it the difficulty of the canoe bobbing about
in the rough water fro® Lhe other river. The banka were overhung with trees,
bushee end vinos, soma of thm flowering with orange colored trumpets and others
with brilliant rod flowers. It was all beautiful and I would not have missed
it but I was glad when I saw our launch r.nd know the oanoe trip t«ea ended.

They had come from ou$- station with our launch as far as they oou a come
but the river was too low to come all the way, and before se got to our station
we found it was too low to come is far ec they did. But it would have taken
d&ye doing the whoI a trip in a canoe just paddling and they knew bhe oiffioulty
and danger under this sun especially for the baby so they cane up and up riv r
with the launch. It was a welcome sight whan we rounded a bend in tne river
and saw our own launch racored mid waiting to take us into its charter.

\ie bearded and made the woe member of the party comfortable in one of the
bertha in the cabin and started down river without losing any time as the river
*W8 steadily getting lower and wc feared trouble before we could reach Jahuapanaa.
Our launch is built for low water, but at thia time of the year the river is
exceedingly low horc at the upper end -nd for a number of months while we can
easily co.’ineot wth all points below us yot it is not safe to come up stream.

How delightful it was in the launch. We were making good time and there
was a fine breoae passing thru the cabin all the time. I had a chair beside
the berth where I could watch the baby and yet enjoy the sconery, and it was
beautiful.

All at once 1 heard a scraping sound, I felt the launch tipping to one
side arid 1 saw the nmn all rush to the high side and jump. I grabbed my little
son and with a prayer in my heart made for the open deck as fast as possible.

I too got to the high side, half in and half out, ready to jump into the water
i the launch should turn on over. We were at the mouth of a channel and had
st,.uok a sand bar in such a way that the bow was grounded while the stern was
so close to the rush of the current that it was being carried little by little
which meant that if we could not release the bow in time we would be carried
backwards into the channel or be completely turned over. It was very serious
and dangerous. Hon the men did work and how I did pray, perched there on the
rail with my baby in my arms.VAt a moment when it looked safe for at least a
few seconds I dashed back into the oabln and grabbed our hate ante u

-ji4 from the gnats

iTJSd to jump *e would have wprotWllWl-W■
because we might bo stranded there for no one knew now long.

After more than two hours of a bit of anxiety and a lot of hard sork
*® sere again on our say down stress only to meet wore or less the same fate
again in the afternoon. Talc tine I was out on deck preparing a bottle of orange
joice for the baby whan the boat grounded and tip ed so suddenly that tne bottle
and other thing* I *<ae uuing in the preparation were spilled into the river and
we saw then no more. k"' I didn’t give a thought to saving these things but was on
ay say to tho cabin to get ay baby before he was spilled out of the berth. Again
he and I perched ourselves on the rail and waited. This time the situation was
not so serious but it took longer to get off the bar. We were there for hours.

With all this delay it raede it impossible to reach Cahuapanas that day
so when night overtook us we moored our launch where it aesmed to be toe i feast
likely drinking place for tigers, and we slept peacefully until morning.

le had the little kereaeno stove with us and supplies enough for the
extra meals so »e cooked and ato and continued on our way.

About the middle of tne next afternoon we saw a canoe coming up river
and found it was a rescue party from our station coning, in aeeron of us. They
knew something had happened to us and they ieurea we might hot have food.

SLan we finally rounded a ^ena in the river ana this time saw our
mission station high on the bah-, we knew our journey was ended ana here wo w ere
at our Jungle hone.

Indiana were at our port to take our things up to the hou:;e.

In none of the letters from hone you have mentioned | Jh it you Iv ve
prayed daily for our protection and safety on this trip. Bursty the Lord
traveled with us every hour of every day. There wi-.u probably not one evening
when we dismounted rig were together to talk that we uiu not Mention how we
had boon especially oared for during the day and now we had felt too very presence
of God near us.

»?e were in so many dangerous places, so uaiv swioun things happened
and yet none of us *hre ever hurt. It remarkable and could not nave bsen
except tost we were divinely Kept. Tie tnank God for Hie oars and blessing, and
count on this saute love to keep us here as »s live and work in toe Juggle aith
these needy Indians.

Lovingly,

Stulls.

OaJmrtijBiiaSj

Via pt 04 Bcrmudes and Lima,
Peru, South America*

October IJth, 1<?28.

Dear Follce 1

t’Then we arrived here at Cahuapanae, our Jungle Station, we found
the Bungalow under construction but only one room, our bed room, Ready for
use* °So that meant we had to live and cook and eat in the Palm Wood house

and o#ly sleep in the real hoUBe.

The Palis Wood house is the native house and it is without windows
or doors, just holes for these. The roof which io the ceiling also is thatch.
The walle and floors are split palm wood, and furnish no p»6tection from the
gnats and ants and bate which march and fly in droves. hiving in the Jungle
in one of these houses without x j rotection from these pests is a slow but
certain way to sure insanity and death to the person adustomed to civilization

'lz

The gnat stings and then sucks your blood. Its sting is like the jab
of a hot needle and then the itching that follows nearly drives you crazy. They
swarm about your eyes and make life most miserable. I found it necessary to
near two pair of stockings, also arm protectors from myvriete to ray sleeves,
and then a large handkerchief around my neck in order to have any comfort at
all. #

There are tiny ants that come in and eat your clothing, books and your
furniture. There are larger ants that eat your eugar and lard and all food
stuffs. There is an ant about one and t/2 inches lung that stings you^ giving
such pain that you are in agony and along with it a fever that lasts 7 or 8
hours and makes the strongest indian quit work.

( The bats come only "at night. They are the blood sucking Vampire
Bats. Dangerous and an awful nuisance.

With all these difficulties at the palm Wood house we decided to
rush the building of the Bungaloe as fast as possible, so we finished the
kitchen and moved in and since then have been building the rest of the house
right over our heads. Dear lia ile David goes to sloop to the tunc of hammering
as well as to a lullaby.

Our Kitchen and our bedroom is screened, doors and wlndors with
copper screening and we are protected from these pests. You can never know
what a blessing this house is to us. The money for building it is a gift from
Christian friends in Pittsburgh Pa. When it is finished the entire house
will be screened. j fl flj a

(. The first few weeks there was no door to our bedroom. The whole
front of the house was open, and in fact all the house but the little corner
that was our room.

I am afraid I can never explain my feelings in those first weeks.
They were strange. We arrived here and I walked into our bedroom and turned
around and there was a big indian with his head and shoulders in ray window. Just
looking that was all. He was interested to see the new white lady.

The nan all insisted that there was absolutely no danger of the
tigers coining to bhe house. I, however, was not so absolutely sure.

They say they do not come where human beings are, but I don't believe that.

If there is something there they especially want I firmly believe they will
come for it. There was my soft sweet little baby.

At the next port up river they had a young bull in the house
protecting it from the tigers, and one night they had two Indians with guns
and a dog on the front porch watching to get the molesting tiger and put an
end at least for a while to their troubles. The Indians fell asleep and the
tiger came and took tile dog and got away before the Indians could do anything.

So you see I don't put too much confidence in their assurance that there is
absolutely 'NO' danger.

1 -

When we had been here less than two vreeks the men shot from their
bedroom window one night to sc&ro away a tiger that was coming too close for
convenience. So thereby ou are. And night after night at every sound I
was sitting up in bed* Out of bed. Putting ray flash light on David.

Walking out of my room into the open part of the house juat Jc, ° ^ a ^ ce a 1°°^*

(The night 3 are full of sounds. Strange sounds. Screams and
shrieks arid grunts and groans. Some' pretty sounds* some soft ones. Iher
ia one bird that you hear only at night which they call Alma Ferdida which is
in English a Lost Soul. It has the most terrible blood curdling shriek I

ever heard. It bothered me a little and would have bothered me a lot but I
would not let it, did not dare to let it.

you hear the tigers just at night. They have a kind of loud grunt.
There are frogs and birds and insects. And the Jungle simply hums and buzzes
and groans and sings all night long.

’To a certain extent I have gotten used to the sounds and they do
not bother me much. Then too I have a heavy screen door on ray bedroom and
it locks, so nothing can walk in without making a lot of noise doing it. So
I root better.

( But thoce awful first weeks. I didn't imagine any place could have
such terrifying characteristics. There are the tiger a ; there are ’the un¬
friendly Indians who have come to these parts in the past burning dwellings and
killing families, and there are the hurricanes. I didn't know as I could get
used to it and have calm and comfort. But I am becoming peaceful about all
these things. ^

The"tigers have so far kept their distance. A shot from a gun sends
them off. We have guns and we all know how to u~e them. We are occasionally
alarmed when the;' pigs begin making a fuss or when one of the dogs begins yelping
in the night as these two si^ns are pretty sure to mean a ti & er is around looking
for food. But the thought of the tigers does not bother u$ much,

' — The danger from the Wild Cam pa Indians living up the river from uo

caused me some concern when we first came in, especially as ve are located ri*
at the place where they made their raid in 1?l4 burning houses and killing
people A Dicectly acrosE the river in front of our house, in what is now our
corn field, there once stood ^^rause where a partly white jann lived. That house
wag burned then. Some of the posts that formed the foundation still stand to
apeak of the tragedy.

There was a convent up the other river just a little way from us,

I think that ground joins our land. A strange deserted place for a convent, but
those in charge thought it a good place to get in touch with the i nutans, as vie
.also think, that is why we have chosen this location.

The Oampa Indians had been mistreated by the Rubber .Dealers. Had been
robbed of their rubber and in some cases the Rubber Dealers simply killed the
indian and took his rubber, thus not having *o pay for the rubber. This is
probably what led to the raid the Indians made in l? . That, however, was the

year when nearly the whole world was at war and the fsver of it may have caused
the trouble here, altho they would have known nothing about the trouble in other
parts of the world.

Well anyway, the Campus decided to make a raid on the Convent. Some
of the Campas in the convent got a rumor of it and altho the authorities and the
priest there did not believe there would be a raid, yet they had the pasture
land cleared all around the builaings so as to hare a good open space to see and
fight if anything did happen.

One day one of the boys was working out a way from the Convent and
saw a wild Camps and reported it. They sent out other o to lookand sure enough
the Cempas were there, but were not planning to start the fight until dark, but
being discovered they started ih at once. The fight began. Many of the Indians
had shotguns that they had probably gotten from the Rubber Traders. The men V
.the convent had guns and there was a terrible fight. The Priest and many or .he
people escaped in canoes and were saved. Our closest neighbor is the man they
call the hero of the affair. They say ho stood and fought until there was no
hope of saving anything and then escaped in a canoe. The campas burned the

Convent to the ground after taking out such thingo as they wanted. They even
killed all the cattle. They were a blood thirsty bunch. Then they came on
down the river right to .there we are now and burned the house that stooa rig
across tile river from us. About the same time there were other raids forth
up the river. Passengers going thru on the launches were killed. But th
the government sent soldiers in here and they went up these rivers killing
campas at such a rate that the Compas have lived in terror of the white man
since and that is why it is so hard now for us to get in touch with them.

The unfairness and the cruelty of the white man drove the Indians to

do these awful things and we believe Christianity and the Gospel of Christ will
influence them just as strongly for right. They will make the Campas fit for
neighbors and will make some of them fit for Heaven. There is power in the

Gospfl of Christ. It is 'the pov#er of God unto Salvation'

I do not fear the Campas now. But these things made for a strange
feeling those first days and nights.

And the hurricane? There is a rather heavy wind storm every feu

(Keeks, but once a year there is a tropical hurricane and it is very sever®.

It has not come yet this year, should come this month. But tho I dreaded it
when I first thought of it, I even have peace about that now.

So we are well and happy to be here at our place of service.

To keep our sanity and our health and our joy we must live very

close to God. You know we are way out here where we do not have the
Sunday Morning sermons and midweek prayer meetings with other Christians
to inspire and renew us. We are just ourselves and one cingle Missionary

and no one else. It means that if we do not get our inspiration and renewing
directly from God we don't get it at all. We could not exist here if it

were not that we have a very real and a very close fellowship with the Living
God. After supper we have our Evening Prayers together every night. Tha-
helps. We read God's Word an «e pray. There are many needs about the
work and there are many personal ones. We have had remarkable answers*

So we are kept sane, we are kept well and we fire hept happy.

We are exceedingly normal and get enjoyment out of living* We celebrate
birthdays with cake and candles. Once a week we play games at thd table
in the evening. We try to keep ballanced in our living.

Living in the Jungle is a strange adventure but we are happy in it.

Truly yours

Stulls.

USUlU&pOJ LQDj

Via Pto*Bermudez and Lima.
November JOth, 1928.

Dear Folks:

We knew you were getting our letters because from^time to tinie they
would appear in the News, and then we received your letters written September 22nd,

I will try and answer your questions. By the time you get this letter
however you will forget you asked them. It takes so long*

You ask what kind of yecetation we have and what vre principally live on
and how we provide clothing. AnJ^We jjot drafts would we have to save them until
19J0 or could we use them. ^

When the land is not cleared it is grown almost solid with green things
of many descriptions. Trees small on up to perfectly immense, ones. palms, ferns
some of which are like trees, vines and regular Jungle growth of every kind*

Where it is cleared we raise Yuca. That is a plant that grows like a small tree

sometimes 8 feet high and we eat the root of it* The root ie long and is white
or the other kind is yellow and has a skin that peels off like the bark of a tree.
You boil it and eat it just like that or let it get cold and then fry it. We eat
it boiled plain for dinner and fry the rest for -supper. It is the main food.

Next to this comes the platano. Which is of the banana family but which is eaten

cooked. You pee^ them and boil them. 0r you bake them with or without the tokins*

You pell them slice them lengthwise and fry them, or cut them in round slices and
fry in deep fnt. I cut them and put lemon juice and syrup on them and bake them

for desert. Taste something like Brown-Betty that way. I use them all kinds of
ways. ~ Because we have them. There is also another root we eat. This is the
roo% of a plant like an Elephant-Ear plant. It is like a bulb and grows very largo.

I boil this and then mash it and put butter with it and try to make our sel ves think
it is mashed potatoes. We have NO potatoes, or turnips, or celery , or carrots
or any of those things we are used to, nor fruits , no apples, peaches, cherries,
grapes or anything like we have in the States. For fruit hi ;e pine apples,
papaiaa and ba. nuis *

mice hogs for our >v;n use co from time to time have fresh pork.

We rI no hove chickens. Outside tliqt we have all wild meat, birds and animals*

Ths other day we had a roast of the hind quarter of a Sachivaca. Vaca means cow,

but this creature is what North America calls a Tapir. They are large, much like

a cow in size. This was a very young one, a Sachivaca calf really and it was a

most delicious roast. We have all lived and the Indiana always eat them when
they can get them so I take it they are good for food. The S&chivacas do a £roat
deal of ham to our corn fields. They do not seen to eat the 1 corn but they walk
thru and leave a wide mashed path.

We raise corn and it .grows very well*. Had roasting ears day before /

yesterday. We raise rice and cotton. Have never had a successful rice crop yet*
That is not a real success. But hope for one this year. This is the first we have
ever planted cotton and it will not be ready to pick until nest spring. Everything
is an experiment here.

We get our clothing from Montgomery and Ward or have it sent in from

Lima* The nail comes every two weeks from Lima and we have things sent in that

nay. The sun in here ruins our clothing pretty quickly. We sweat constantly and
that is hard on clothing. We most wear them out washing them.

No indeed we don't save drafts until we come home* We send them to
Lima and have them cashed and used to buy things for ue there.

Now I wonder if you are going to get this before Christmas. X believe
you should and we wish you all a Merry Merry GhristmaG* Christmas is such a happy
happy time at home and we know you are .having a fine good time* We wish everyone of
you much joy and happiness for this Season. We will do our best to make a
Christmas here. Don't just know what it will be like but will tell of it after
we have had it. Again Much much joy to all of you and greetings to all who ask
about us.

We are well and David ie growing and is as sweet as can be. Ie trying
to cut his 6th tooth and is having a little difficulty *ith it but it will be thru •’
in a* day or so more I think.

Love to all from all us Ruth, Ross and David.

C&hU a; anas,

Yia Ptvt. Bermudas
and Lima., Peru#
South America,
December p 6 Lh,

Maybe you will be interested in knowing how Jhristm&e day was £.eat
at Cahuapana^ in the Jungle*

We told the Indians at Sunday School thut they sere all invited
to our house for Qhristm&s dinner ^nd that their part was to go the woods on
Monday the day before Chrirtme end hunt, so they did and brought in wild
things *hlch Ross and Tom c?.eanad and I cooked*

Before we had breakfast Christmas merning *fs saw the canoe coming
do ra the river bringing pashco and his family* They all arrived in good
thuo* Every one was here. We invited Roth and he also cane down river in
hi 3 canoo, and Lsucuc came up river in his*

After breakfast we made a fire under the two big butchering kettles
outside arid in one cooked beans with meat in tnem and in the other we cooked
Tuca* Such a lot of Wans, but yuh yum they were good after aading some
onion and spice, and Tom stirred them with a shovel.

In the house we cooked rice and served it with the broth from the
bird 3 * It wan good* The day before I baked 66 biscuits and all the weak
before I had baked Christtne# cookies. Ross made a set of fancy cutters for
them, and had star 3 and hearts and moons and different ;retty snap mi and
we had aeut to Lima for colored sugar , and it came thoee tiny tiny kugftr
>alla white and rad mixed ind they made lovely decorations. Frosting does
not stay on very well here, so I sprinkled and decorated the cookies be. ore
baking them and they came out just beautiful, the sugar did not melt or
change color* The Inui&ne thought they were wonderful.

We served Christmas dinner to J7* Had them line up and pass thru
the kitchen and on out pa at the kettles a*’d we served then cafeteria style.

How they did eat, and we refilled tboir plvted* Beans, yuca, platanos, rice
with broth, and meat, biscuits, and cakes. They thought it glorious.

After dinner we had them all come into the Dinning room for the
Christmas Tree* CHRISTMAS TREE* Of course. There are NO pine treee
here, but wa have a tree that looks like one but the leaves are like a fern
lea? and not durable like a pine, but the boys cut it at noon on Monday and
we planted it in a box of wet earth and it stayed beautifully. It was large
and shaped nicely and w n decorated it with everything imaginable. I have
been saving in a box everything T thought would do for trimming for months,
ec had beads, ribbons, buttons, pieces of bright goods and tinfoil and lets of
little bright things. The tree looked beautiful and exceedingly Ohristnasy.

We had presents for everyone. It mbs a big shopping list. Wo
had Charlie buy us things in Lima when he went out. We have l3 men on the
plsce who wear civilisation clothing so we gave each one of then a shirt.

To the women and children who wear that kind of clothing we gave material for
dresses. 10 dr e seas. To the other a who wear the Indian garb we gave beads,

spoons, dolls, mouth organs, red handkerchiefs, comba, soap. The dolls

and mouth organs and handkerchiefs cane out to us in a box from and the

herds ie re some sent from New York, so it just left the spoons and shirts and
dj©88 gooes to actually buy but we think it will pay big dividends and are
netting it tike the place of Bending Christ?-aa gifts home.

The Indians saw deeper into it than you -rould probably tnink. They
saw there was no scheme to gain from them. They expressed great gratitude

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for Mi at we were ttoing for them. In a way the* met* great :y laxstaxen
because the whole plan was to * gain from them' and we believe oae Christinas
doings of yesterday will be the me. ns of w inning some souls ior Christ*

Most of the Indians nave never seen anything like this* One
Indian f ^ith a wife and 5 children, talked to me just before leaving in hie
canoe for their own camp— fire a little way up the river, nd he said he nad newer
seen anything 1 ike this* Ho said he had sea t celebrations ia taw mountain
towns but there he a a id he had to tay for eacn thing* out ha said tn&t to
bo given things is a new thing to them* He is one of the very few who have
ever been outsiae this their own section* He could net tounk ue enough ior
all we aiii for them, and wo explained that it is not because we are rich thp.t w
give to toom but it is to ooianetaorate the |ift God, who muue the dun that tney
have anfaya thought wai* the higlicat Power, gave to th* world* And. then reminded
him ana toe other e again of tile Sunday School lessons auout God giving His Bon
to save tiie people of the world* And so wo GIVE in memory of GoG ( a gift*

It all impressed thorn more deeply than you woulu expect an Indian to
be impressed* And while they think there qas no schema in it to gain from
them ae all the other whites they iiava uelt with have dune, yet toat is ju^t
whut it was all for* It was a way of laying the net to draw in a cargo of
precious Indian souls to lay at the feet of Jaous*

This same Indian with the family iias lived ut different places
along the river before Goming here hi id yesterday* he tfaiu * th«y uo not treat
the people lixe thiu anywhere aloe* They arc beaten* Some places they scad
them to work at the point of a gun* Vic arc ha^y here ana we want to stay
wita you* Wa want you to teach our children* 1 It n&t* a long anaouncoment

for an Indian. Ho said it all in Spanish, ac ho has ^orxed ±or Spaiiisa

a peaking people for years. We had given the littlosb girl a doll and then
h® wanted to buy a doll for the next smallest a u she is a baby ^oo but ve

told thees there f ?ere no m :re to give or sell but tnut sometime we aould ha\e

more and than each little girl should have olio* How they loved those dolls*

Had never had a ddll, but you should have seen tnose four little Irla in the
different families with their babies. They managed to get come rag or article
of clothing from somoons la the t'a^ily and the uoii, tho dreesod, was wrapped
and cradled in their tiny brown arms. They loved them and petted them and
the other little girls just a little larger lookod absolutely hungry for
dulls an£ I did so want to give to all of thou tdiu 1 am going to manage it
somehow to have a doll for every little girl on the place* With our next
Montgomery Ward order X amgoing to send for fulls whether or no* I aan se ici
for e little Spinach less. That flay they coue in thru I .altos ana the duty
is not so much and the dolle thems elves Gon*t coat vary much and it will be
worih a good deal to see these little Indian girls with the happiness a doll
gives them* They have toe same little mothering hearts that all children
everywhere have I find* And I believe that the mothering of pretty dolls
will do something in them to make better motiier3 of toon r;h©n they are grown
than these women here are* Child Physhology teaches that even little boys
should be given do' la to play dth* And certainly too ucmatoooa &iib m&nhoou
of these Children will be dxffere:it if they can be given tne influence now th*t
makea for improvement in the grown per^un¬
it is the rainy aeuson now and it simply POUUS mo3t every day but
Christmas day wa? a glorious sunshiny day and it hud bean dry the day before
so it was nice and dry about the place* We have nut had a dry day since no r
had v* had fer some tima before. It soeued the day was especially prepared*

Te had taken practically everything out of the diningrooLi but just
the tree and the Indiana all cane in and sat on the floor as they always sit

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end the room was almost solid from the walla to the tree *it i Lui ns- .that

a eight it was. They had never even imagined anything so lovely as that

tree. Seme of the prasentB were on the tree and son-* under it avia ail
wrapped except the dolls and beads and things on the tree. Ross calleo their

naiaee and they each _>ot up and tho there ms not much room to nolle he managed
to gat his present. Before starting to give the things to them, we took the
Bible ana explained again *- ; hy we were doing it, and we tolv. them cl 1 Jesus,
and Ood’a gift for us, in tile to-, of the tree we had a bright tin foil star
with the picture of Jesus we had cut from the text calender front, and told
them that without HIM we would have no CnriBtma3, no joy, nothing. That all
this beauty und fun and happiness la because of Jesus. Had it not been for

Him we would never have left our happy homes ith our o and. come down

here, but Jesus said He wanted these Indiana to know about u in well ana bo *-e
esuae to toil them. And that it is ALL because of Jesus. Then ait ting there
on tiio floor they all folded their hands, closed their eyes and bowed their
heads like we do in Sunday School and we had a Christmas prayer , oh what a lot
those was to be thr.fcki'ul for at that moment.

Aft r they all had their gifts Roes brought out a stack of Pirate
hats lie had made of newspaper and put one on the he^d of each child and Tom
brought a basket of 25 bean bags I had made of all kinds of colored patches
and threw then into the crowd and what fun followed. Eean bags everywhere,
the room Was full of tiiea. David wee right in it having a glorious time.
Nothing frightens him, I watched so that they would not hit his face, they
3houtol and laughed and had a fine time. They take up anything xe set the
example for. Ilou careful we must be of our living before them, which means
all the time, as you never know when one i3 peering at you.

After tnis we gave them lemonade made of lomoils from our place and
sweetened with cane ±yrup wo aeke from our own cene and with that the day
finished and they went to their own Camp fires happy and dazzled with what
they had experienced. All these 5? live right here and' are our people but one,
the hermit Roth, the one vie had a birthday cake for on the l4th of December,
tho first birthday celebration he had ever had.

D vid's toys were the most marvelous things the Indians had ever seer*
Wo showed them to them and David would shake and squeeze and twist things to get
tho mufcic and toots «.;«i squeaks out of them and they were delighted. There
wee a rubber ball with ft face on it and when you squeeze it it sticks out its
t.iigue and the Indiana nearly went into hysterics aa the baby worked it. He
is one year and 1? days old and his little baby ways amuse the Indians more
than anything on the place, lie trust hie life shall . l./aya be the blessing
it is being new.

As you pray pray for the success of the Sundty School. Every
Sunday morning nearly all of these Indiana come for Sunday School and we teach
them a little bit of the Gospel, We give them ju?t a very little each
Sunday, but explain that little bit in different ways and over and oV8r and
review each time and now they answer the questions and really know what they
have been told as far as wo have gone. It is encouraging.

And pray too about the Day School which we will open as soon an «o
can get things prepared for it. we have tne Palm Wood house built *itn
money that was sent as a gift for toas purpose, and now we are preparing to
make seats end desks and school furnishings to equip the ? lace for regular day
school• "e do not h-ivc the funds for aii this but it is a need and all our
jds h;ive always been au^^ied so money will come from sonewnere tnst we can
uee for this purpose so we are going right ahead with it.

Hone say that the School is only a means to reach tne younger gen-

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eretion, but not so, these children will learn to read end riil learn the
things we tench them end they ere going to get lots of Bible, we are not
under Govoriment restrictions. This will be a private school and all
on our own and the Government can't say anything about it, and are
going to teach them the GOSPEL .nd use reading, writing and arithmetic to
balance the diet. And these children will naturally go hone end tell
their folks everything they have heard end learned and that way we will get
the parents informed also- VJe believe thiE. So juet ;ray about this
Day School, that we will have everything we need for running it, that fie
will have the added strength for this added work, that we will have the
wisdom far teaching this people, and the patience, and endura nee. God
can give us all this in answer to prayer.

He are well. I always feel like saying this in a hushed voice
because it ia so evident that we are only kept that usy thru the health
imparted to us from the Giver of Life. Other people here ere HOT well.

They go .about, many of them, nith their liver half sapped out by the Malaria
Fevsr. Others suffer all kinas of trouhlfte becaure of the lack of fruit
and veget bla3, and from eating only the few kinds of foods they get here.

OfCourse wo send to Montgomery Ward for canned fruits nd Vegetables
and tnat helps, but we have no fresh or green vegetables whatever, end no
fruit but pineapples in their seotton, bananas ^nd papains, end we buy
oranges from down riv r in season, but that is only a snail pert of the
year. So it is far from natural to be well, and; yet we are. We have been
here more than r.evan nonthe end have not been sick. The daily physical touch
of our Lord is very reel to u8.

" pray God's blessing for you and yours.

Sincerely

P.'S.

We received the letter vfritten in chunks and think it was a great idea.
How we did enjoy that letter, a little from each one and it is fine.
That surely was a great celebration and what a good time you all had.

And Ivon we received the §1 .UO for the Babe and he says many thanks,
at least I guess that is what he says, because he says something
about it.

I don't know if we had sent one of these pictures of lim or not.

Love to everyone and best wishes. I know you lave all had
a Wonderful Christmas. That is always such a hap.y time at home.

*

Cahuapanas,

Via Pto.Beraudez and Lima,
Peru, South America.
January 5let, 1929»

Dear Folks:

Our calander says Hay, however, instead of January. Think of it,
we have no calender for 1929, so find that Hay begins on Tuesday in 1928 and
January would have to begin on Tuesday as the last day of December 1929 i®
Monday, so we have gone clear thru January using May 1920 as a guide and will
go into February on June 1928. 3ut we are in the Jungle and the grocery
here does not give calandors because there is no grocery here. Not a grocery
within 500 miles. So if you have an extra calander around do please stick
it in an enveloping cover and send it to us, less we get hopelessly lost.

We are in the rainy season and it simply pours day after day ind

night after night. Last night it seemed there were a succession of cloud
bursts over our house. I think we would have beaten to the ground if we
had been out in it. And the lightning was so bright and so constant that
it seemed the house was in flames. How it poured. It was not conducive
to sleep. And arjyway just before going to bed I had finished the book I was
reading. The History of the Conquest of Peru by Prescott and it is an awful

thing to read in the Jungle. I would advise anyone else not to do it, but I

did not think it was going to be so bad when I started it and once started
you just cannot leave it and I was anxious to know thd history so I went thru
it. But it gets you when you are out here among the Indians. It is so full
of battles, and beheadings and drawings and quarterings and burnings and
everything that goes with that kind of a conquest that it makes you shivver.

But I am glad I read it, it is most interesting Now I am going to read
it in Spanish. Prescott's History was ofcourse all taken from the

Spanish records, and the Spanish notes with it are interesting. ,

Did you ’■* , ad the Bridge of San Luis Rey when it w«a running in the
Mansfield News? We have it in Book form. One of the Methodist nurses at
the Hospital in Lima sent it to us and *o have both read it. It is very
interesting. Ross read it all in one day. Can't stop once you start it,
and yet I cannot seo tk<^.t it would be ao interesting to anyone not knowing
Peru, but its popularity proves that it is. Now Ross is reeding Vagabonding
down the Andeas. I will read it when he has finished. , .

Our reading time is very limited with the multitude of duties we
have here but we mnnnge some reading.

We had a rather severe blow last week. When the mail launch came
up river it brought a telegram, rather a radiogram for Tom Willey the single
missionary here with us to come home at once. His father is in a serious
condition and it seetis the sister, the only other child insisted that he return.
So he went. The missionary call sits more lightly on some missionaries than
on others. He was not Alliance, but from denomination sen%out by the
Alliance. He felt lis call home more urgent than his work here. It has
left us in a serious plight. Only one man on the Jungle station, and this
the rainy season. last rainy season there were 5 men here and then there
were only and handful of Indians. Now there is such a lot of Indians here
all to be looked aftdr and kept buoy. It is indeed a bi£ task for one man.

Ross is excellent in the position he holds here, - but whether physically he will
ybe able to handle this proposition or not I do not know. There is so much
that the Indians canrot do and he must do it, being alone. I cannot help him
mucn with ;iis work. It is so decidedly a man's job, handling the Indians and
the crops and all. My part of the business here keeps me busy anyway.

We expect a new couple from the States in the spring and our
earliest relief seems to be in them. We sincerely trust that they will
come* Ofcourse they will not have the language but can do a great deal
to help and we can handle the teaching and the Spanish work,

David is going all offer the house with a bunch of his Dad's keys
thinking he is locking all the doors and drawers and everything that looks
as tho it could Le locked even tho he cannot reach the keyholes. He is a
darling boy and we love him. Is finishing his IJth month and is adorable-
like boys are at that age. His hair stays golden and curly and his eyes
blue like the sea. Really he is lovely to us at lease and there is no
baby in the Jungle to make a comparison so we go on thinking he must bh the
finest in the world.

Ross has cotton and rice growing nicely. Ke has never had any
experience with the one or the other so it is all new to him but by this
time next year he will be experienced.

Our big Pichis,(pronounced as tho it were Pechis. Long 1 e 1 and
at the end a soft 1 i*,)River is rising and dropping several times a day
in this the rainy season. It makes it difficult with the launch as Ross
has to keep lengthening and shortening the cabel that ties it so that it
will not get left up on the bank as the river falls and that the current
will not catch it when it river is high. It is quite a responsibility
looking after it arid he cannot trust it to the indians.

I am making a copy of this for Golda and one for Deas. We had
a letter from each of them on the last mail. And a New Years card from
Ivon and Sertha. Thanks everybody we are always so glad for letters and
cards. We hope you are all well and happy.

Thanks Golda for your thought about a little artificial Christmas
tree. Just as well you did not send it. David has one. Ross got it for him

last year for his first Christmas, Wi.en he was 10 days old and we brought it

in with us and trimmed it for him this year again.

We sent to Lima and got toys for him and he had a regular Christmas.

Seemed to think it was great. Had an elephant that rolls on a pink ball. And
black and blue and white x»lush duck that quacks $ a horn that has a bell on the
end of it. A musik box, a little gray horse, a rooster, a mouth organ that he
plays (very nicely), and quite a number of other things.

You all mention that you suppose he had a cake and candle for his
birthday and he did. Had his pictures taken but have not gotten them back

from Lima as yet. Host of them are not good. We are planning to get a new

Kodak because it is a shame not to 0 et good pictures in this country. We think
we can get one in Lima. It would be awfully expensive to get one thru

customs if we had one sent out. We have written to Lima about one. If we
get one we can send you some good pictures. Pictures mean so much to us that
we think they must mean a lot to folks at home also.

We felt an earth quake here about the time Chili was shaken so it

may have been the same one but we are hundreds and hundreds of miles from the

part that was destroyed. We have felt two since being in here, but both
af t em slight.

TTo Golda we are not going into Yaca's country. When the rainy
seasoa our big indian Miguel is going with a number of the other indians up to
Yaca's country. They do not want the white man to come, so it is more diplomatic
to stay away for the]present and just send the indians. They invited Miguel to
cone back but with Canvas only. So he is going that way.

We send y^u all love.

Truly, Ruth, Roes, and David.

Cahuapanae,

Via Pto. Bermudez
and Lima, Peru,
South America*
March 18th, \9%9*

Dear Folks;

You are getting ready to say goodbye to winder and we are in
the midst of hot weather* It is always hot here, and smetimes it is
hotter. Right now it POURING rain and doing it in great style, along
with thunder and wind.

Ross just finished putting a spouting on the back of the house*

He has been soldering for a couple of days getting the spouting ready.

He sent 1000 miles for the material. Clear to Iquitos which is the
nearest place we have to send for it.

Last week he finished his cistern. A fine big cistern all
cemented and now we will have a good water supply. We have always had
to cayry the water so far for every thing. There are so many things to
do at a new place.

He ie having the Indiana take out stumps and take away
logs* You see such a short time ago this was all solid forest and the
stumps stand around in armies. But now they are beginning to rot : one
and can be taken out. We want the place clean and clear and open. It
is beginning to look pretty nice.

We got your pretty Christmas Card and also the one from ‘Pete 1 .
Pete wfikat are you doing with yourself. Attending Board meetings I suppose*
Tell Ivon and Bertha we received their nice letter of December 27th and
appreciate it very much. Tell them by all means to send us their picture
as they mentioned. It will get here alright. Everything comes thru fine,
and we will be awfully glad to see them. Wish you would get out your
Kodak and take pictures of all of you, we would enjoy seeing pictures
of you all and every one just immensely. Please have yourselves taken.

Give Ivon the enclosed stamps please. He says he has a 2^atamp
but there ere two kinds of stamps and he probably has only the one kind*
This Tacna y Arica stomp has to go on all mail inside Peru., along with
a 10£ stamp, but to go outside the country just the 10^. It is a special
tax here. We will save all the odd stamps we get from time to ti e for hint

Iteeems our time is full up every minute. We are alone now, just
Ross and the Baby and myself. Have been for two months and will be for
some titto to come I guess so we have plenty to do. Our letter writing
time is limited but you understand that because you are all busy too.

Tell Ivon and Bertha we will answer their next letter direct. We always
like to get letters.

Had a good Class with the Indians Sunday, They never fail to
come and they come early. Started Sundayschool at 7'55 in the morning
and they were all here waiting a while before that. Folks that do
like that really want to learn uon f t they. And they are learning* TJJiey
answer the questions very well and it ahowa they really understand what
they are being taught. They sing 5 songs quite nicely now and loycx
to sing. They sing Cristo el Salvador me salva ya. 11 (Christ the/ KTx
Saviour saves me now.)

We send you all love. We are all well and happy. Lov

Cahuapanas,

Via Pto,Bermudez
and Lima, Peru, S.A-
April 15th, 1929*

_2

Deareat Polka:

Your letters came and with them news about all of you and we
are glad you are well -

Also each letter contained a draft that arrived in perfect
condition and are most welcome. Thank you 80 very much. It touched
a very tender place in our hearts to have you rein ember us with part
of your very first r *ay and we appreciate it more than we can say, the
money and the love back of it.

What school are you in, or do you have different schools to
look after?

We satf the article in the paper about us and with the picture
in it. Bo many many people write us and say tfepy have read the article
Mr.G# F. Stull had put in the paper. It is such a good idea for so
many become interested that may.

Roes wants me to enclose the 1 Pioneer Advance 1 that has a little
article in also. This is a new sheet that is being put out along with the
Allis nee Weekly that is printed weekly by the Alliance we are under.

We had a letter also from Golda in this mail but I don't think
I will get it answered this time. I do not really see just how the week f _v
slipped away but I an late starting my letters and the mall launch will coir J
today or tomorrow at the latest I think.

David is having hie mornir^g sleep. Yes he is dear to us.

He and Ross get on the day bed when they both get in the house at the same
time and have a big romp and talk. David imitates the mother cow and the
baby calf. Ross taught him by puttiiig hie hands over his mouth and making a
sound like the little calf so now David puts his little hands over his moutjh
and does it too. When we ask him how the 4 launch goes he says ’ed m m ra ro* and
that is how the launch whistle sounds. Our dog is named Laddie and David
always wants to save part of hie meal for Laddie and goes to the door with it
when we put him down from his chair and calls [ Ls-e La-e Lu~e 1 with his tongue
going so fast and it Bounds very much like 1 Laddie Laddie 1 , Last night Ross
and I were out with him at hia sand pile and he played out until 25 minutes
od 7 . I know that is not according to rules but he loves so to play out.

Ross is butchering an immense hog this morning, Has a big Indian'
and two Indian boys helping. We provide our own lard and meat this way* My

part is to make the sausage. I fry it all down and put it in tin cans with

2mrd over it. We will have the ribB and back bone toasted fresh. They are
always bo good. Oh that we only had a potato or two to roast with it. When

we see potatoes again I suppose we will just eat and eat. We get hungry for
the things we are used to and can 1 ! raise here. They simply will not grow.

We had a very fine Sunday School yesterday. The Indians are learning
and they answer questions very well. They are getting the Gospel and you
Dfould really be surprised to know how much they grasp. The two boys we kc*ep
here by the house have two little brothers who stay with the father at his
place back in the woods and once in a while tre two little brother# come arli
stay alnight with the bigger boys and when they come the bigger boys tell them

all over again about what we have told them in the Sunday school class.
They want the little boys to understand .nd they of course feel they have
understood much more than the little things and then it is up to them to
tell it to them until they know it too. It is very interesting to see
the interest they take. They want to know and it makes us very ha py
give our time to tell them of the good news we know from the Gospel.

Well really I dare not wr^te any more now.

We are all well. Roes was sick for about J weeks. It
worried us dreadfully and he suffered a great deal. Somethin wrong
with his stomach. Some lack in the diet I suppose, or something was
not just right in what we did eat. You can never tell what does cau^e
upsets out here, but he is must better now and we think he will be alright.
It is awful to be even a little bit sick here, so far away from any help.
But we think he is over his trouble now.

*

Cahuapana3j

Via Fto*Bermudez
and Lima, Peru, S. A.

May i>th, iyap.

Dear Folks:

Your letters of March 19th cane on this mail and
with them the draft from Mrs,Pilgrim. How very nice of her
to send it* I &m writing her on this mail to thank her also
as she must be interestl^f she sent money and woulu probably
would like a nice letter about our work here*

Indeed it is sad about Clara Stull. The family will
certainly miss her*

Well we had very good news by telegrem v and then by a
letter that followed that a couple is on the way to help us
here in the Jungle. It is terrible to be here alone and to
know someone is coming is joyful news.

They will arrive here one week from yesterday and we are rushing
around getting ready for them- They have a little girl one year
and 4 months older than David and it will be very nice for David to
have someone to piay with* However it may be a little hard on
the little girl for a while until we can get David.broken in to
associating with an American child as he has reaver played with
anyone but Indians and dogs, and he given them rather rough treat"
ment •

I have not seen another White woman for just about one year
and you may know how delighted I will be to have them here.

We will all live in the same house. There is no other
house h^re. We will ^o on fine I know and it will be so nice to
have someone.

Today Ross is working on an 1 ap&ratue 1 to make a shower
bath for us. It is so hot here that a shower bath will be so nice.

Our new cistern that he made furnishes us with lots of nice soft

vrater,

David is busy from morning till night running and playing
and trying to get someone to take him out of doors. He loves to
play out, I had him out this mo.ning and he played in the gravel
pile and the little water trench around one of the pillers under
the house, dipping out water and putting it into a can. He loves
to play in wa£er. I guess all children do. I always did.

t

We have 7 tiny puppies and they are the prettiest little
things. David pi ekes them up by a hand full of flesh anywhere he
happens to get hold of them and they donH seem to care. He is not
afraid of anything.

’Ye send you all

love. We
Lovingly

getti

ine.

I an sending

. i

the original of this to Bertha and a

coto DesBa.
bo ;ju sending a sample

Cahuapanaa,

Via Pto.Brmudez
and Lima, Peru, S.A*
July 1tth f tpE?.

David's hair is getting darker allthe time
of that it is now. Guess when we get
me it will be dark.
j.ou see a corner of our house back of

David. The only frame house in miles and
miles. Note the Indians in the canoe have had their hair cut and are taring shirts
Dear Polksi and pants. The two in front still wear their crowns tho.

This morning wo were at the breakfast table when some Indians
came hurrying up to the do r and said "Samoa martado una Sachavaca alia
on la quebr&da. Quiere llds-V'erla?" Wo told them that ve did. It was
this that they had killed a Sachavaca in the ravine back of us and they
wanted to know if we would like to see it before they cut it up. Qfcourue
we did want to. Ross had seen one close up but I never had so was anxious
to see it. Urs. Steiner and I went leaving the babies with their fathers.
iVe walked and walked back thru the woods. We crossod two streams on thin
tree trunks for bridges. On and on we went and finally erne to the place
(there they had the Sachavaca. If you look in your geography or your
dictionary for Ta.ir then you have the picture of a Sachavaca for it is
exactly that, this is the Indian name for it and it means 'wild cow 1 .

They are very hard to kill. The head is armoured and no amount of shooting
it in the head will kill it. Ross met one one day and was only a number

of rods away from it and shot it three times in the head with a rifle and

it just trotted off and he was so dazed at it going off like this after
being successfully sho"^ as he though - ^ that he lost the thing afterall.

The Indians tell us you con only kill their, by shooting them in the ribs.

Every other iart of the body is protected with a heavy coating of brisket
and bullets lose their effect. The meat is very good. Quite like
*’ beef. We had steak for dinner. And a swiss steak is in the over
for tomorrow dinner. There is a joint cooking for soup and there is
a pot roast. We do not get meat every day and sometimes not every week
so when we get it we make good use of it. 9 a are too busy a era otiir.es

to go hunting raid wemetines the Indians have no success and other times

are not inclined to hunt.

We have only had beef once in more than a year. It

simply does not exist here. We have aone cows but it ia so hard to
get them that we dare not kill thorn to eat. They are precious. A
lovely big brown cow, the only one giving milk, died a week ago, now
her little calf idilch would have grown into a milk cow has died also,
losses like this are hard on us because of it being so hard to replenish
our stock. A cow must be bought days end days away from here and
brought here in a canoe. Mow think of transporting a cow in a canoe
end you will see why we feel it a great deal when we lo/ae a cow.

We like deer better than Sachavaca. Ross has killed 4 deer
in that many weeks. This meat is delicious. We have a prise dog

for hunting. We brought him in froa Lima with us more than a year ago
when he was a pup. He is part police* His mother is one of the most
beautiful high spirited police dogs I have ever seen. He is a hunter.

He goes into the forest and hunts a deer and brings it to the river above
the house and makes it swim. Then he follows* it into the water and
brings it right down past the house and Rosa shoots it. Laddie has
brought all 4 of these out this way, end 5 more, 2 of which were shot
by the Indians and brought in and the 7th was shot in the water and it
sank and they lost it. We consider him a worth while dog. And Ross
is a crack shot, so we have meat as a result.

One day Laddie got so excited following the deer in the water

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and ha got so dose to it that ha climbed right on its back and kapt
yelping every little bit whan he could no longer restrain hia excitement.

So much for the animal life no** a bit about the Indiana.

We have started a day school for them. The Gospel will never be printed
in the Campq tongue, nor in the Amuexa tongue, so the only way they will
ever be able to read the Bible will be to teach then Spanish. Every
Indian/ wants to learn Spanish as every contact they have with anyone
outside their own tribe requires speaking in Spanish as that is the
language of the country. We are doing them a eervioe when we teaoh
them Spanish, alany of the Indians speak soae Spanish, but none of them

can write or read. They don't know ‘a 1 from 'b' or '1' from '2

If we tell them that 2 and 2 are half a do^en or that 'cat 1 spells
elephant they will believe it.

While we started the Mission here to work among the Indians
of the Campa tribe we find we have about half ana half Caapas and
Amuexas. The Amuexas are another tribe of Indians very different in
some ways and quite like the Camptas in others. Amuexa is pronounoed
as tho it were spelled 'a mu a'aha 1 . Long 'A* where the aoent falls.

The other two a-a are like tae 'a' in 'father 1 .

The Amuexa Indiana fear the Campas. They know them to be
fieroe killers and much to be feared. But coming here to the Station
they have no fear asd as they believe that the fact, that we are hero
mokes even tribal customs different. For the benefit of the teaching

they receive and the contact which works to their good they are willing
to lay aside even some of their beliefs.

Ve can not start teaching all of them ABC and to spell
and so on, but first some of tnem nave to be taught to talk and under.ft.Jid
Spanish and then reading aud writing it will come later, so you see how
very difficult school work is made. Nevertheless tney will learn. They
want to learn.

And the Sunday School is the crowning of all. They sing 6
Sunday Sohool songs now and do it nicely. Campa Indians painted and
•wearing feathers and forest ornaments of many kinds sitting here singing
Gospel songs. A year ago some of them had never heard the name of
Jesus. Some had never seen a white man or woman.

They ait and listen to the Gospel and make strange eaciomatione
of surpris* and t,rief and delight as the things are told to them.

Ve have to go slowly with the teaching because they know
absolutely nothing to start with. Even the primary teaching is advance
work for them. tfe just toll then a little and then go over and over
it to make them understand. But then they do understand and bit by
bit they will know. Some do know now.

They are so wild. So very much the children of the Forest.

But they were included with those for whom the Sacrifice at Calvary
was made and the Holy Spirit is able to make known to them the Christ
who died for their Salvation. It is a glorious thing to tell them

this fact and to watch the Holy Spirit reveal the truth of it to thea.

‘‘ ! e count on the salvation of many Indian souls because the Gospel As being
taught. , * 1 ^

We are well and very happy in our work. \ A

T.AW< nnrl wr M 111 1 4*

CahuapanaB, via
Pto.Bermudez y
Lima, Peru, S.America.
August l6th, 1929.

Dear Folks 1

I am making a carbon of this for Willard, and Attica. Maybe you
won't thank me for copies, but if it is not a copy it can't be anything this
time as there seems to be a rush on in the Jungle and we are desperately busy.

We are always busy and sometimes busier.

The adorable picture of little Z°e came and X want to grab ner oif

that chair and hug her. How sweet she is.

Received the letters thlB mail from Renna and Ithel and the ones iron

Ivon and Bertha. flood letters all and we are so glad for letters from the
family. Happy that you are all well and that everything goes well with all

of you*

We could give the kiddies in the family a treat now if they were
here. We have a dear baby in our chicken yard. That is a baby deer. A
real live baby deer. Laddie and Fido and Pansy went hunting, they are our
three best hunters, dogs all, and they brought the little deer out to the river
and the two Indian boys we have here at the house took their gun and went but
when they found it we.s a baby they did not Bhoot but took it alive. It was
not hurt only itB ears a little where the dogs kept grabbing it. They carried
it up to the house in their arms and it screamed like a child, 'mah, mah, 10 ah'
for all the world like David calls me. It is just as pretty ae can be. Still
Tfild but we think it will tame, because the deers do get tame when you have
them awhile and follow you about like a domestic animal you make a pet of.

Hunting is a splendid diversion here. Just a few days after
we got the baby deer the dogs vrere barking in the woods which means they
are bringing some animal to the river. We never know what it will be.

This time it was a big deer. Maybe the father of the baby deer. The dogs
brought it out on our side of the river and it started to swim for the other
side. Roscoe and the boys got in a canoe a went acrose just after it landed
they landed and Roscoe shot and hit it but did not kill it and it jumped
back into the river. The Indians had stayed in the canoe and followed it
out into the water. One of the dogs was right with it, grabbing it every

minute and keeping it worried. I was in front of the house watching the
■whole performance thru the field glasses. David got just as excited as I
did and was shouting everything I was shouting to the boys and to Rows. We
just have a great time when there is a chase on. They have lost two deer
by shooting them after they were in the water. They sink so quickly and
do not come up for 2 1/2 hours, and sometimes they are carried away by the
under current and we never see them again. So they did not shoot again,
but the dogs brought it right to the canoe and the one Indian grabbed its
hind legs and the other put a 'bijuca' (which is a vine that is like a rope)
around its neck and got it into the canoe. This vine is the Indian's rope
and he always has some of it in his canoe. It is used generally in all these
forest parts just as we would use rope at home. Costs nothing and serve very
well. Well we had fried steak for supper, swiss steak for the next day dinner,
and a pot roast for the next day. I have eaten deer meat brought down from

Canada, but never anything that tasted so good aB this. Maybe because we do
not have much meat and what we get is a treat, but anyway it is very good.

Ethel you say you often wonder how we do our work and what we have
to do with. Well we have much more to do with than many missionaries. I
suppose there is not another mission station that is quite so hard to get to.

And dertainly there is no other station any 'newer . Three years ago this
place was a spot of dense Jungle forest and what we have cleared away and built
here is the only clearing and the only byjilaing3 of any kind within miles and
miles and miles. And yet we have a great deal to do with and in a way have

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■J thingB quite Rice. Much sacrifice and. denial is necessary on the Mission field
but some missionaries think they should do without just as much as they cen do
without, even to the extent of suffering where it is not necessary absolutely,
r believe we will not receive any reward whatever in this world in Heaven for
' n«Ang without things we can have if they do not cause other branches of ^the work
to suffer, so when we can supply ourselves with a shower bath and a perfectly
screened house, and a pump to draw water from a cement cistern, why we have those
things. And we have them. Roscoe is mechanical down to his toes and we find
he also is an iron worker, a tin worker, a cement worker and several other things
and what we do not have or cannot get why he makes. Many of the convient things
we have to make life less of a drugery we have simply because we have the will and
the practical and common sense to make them. This 1 b not to say we live in luxury.

We don't. For several months we were out of flour. Hot because we had not ordered
in time but because there was none on the market. We buy from Iquitos which is on
the Amizon River and there is no national flour in that part of the country. They
get it from the U*S.A.&nd wait until it comes. This time what came was claimed
by the bakers there and there was none for sale, Can you think of doing without
FLOUR for 5 months? The sugar we have now is about one tenth part, dirt. The

dirt being sand, bits of wood and flies and little beeB. It must be reduce^
to liquid and strained before we cen use it. These thingB do not make life more
pleasant but we can stand them. These thingB we cannot avoid but there are
certain things we can avoid and those we do avoid. We have a regular wood stove
that ie a marvel to those who see it. It is the only stove in hundreds of miles.

Everyone cooks on an open fire, the smoke from which nearly burns out their eyes.

We have brought in cooking utensils and dishes and iron beds at a great expense,
but the expense is not too much compared with the comfort these things give ue.

We send to Montgomery Ward for canned fruit and vegetables which come to us very
hi'" v , but we have to have them. We also buy sugar from them for David. We could
{ give dirty Bugar to a baby when money can bring us decent food. So while it
takes our allowance a merry chase to supply necessities we think it is well spent.

David ie well and robust and that is worth everything. There is much he misses
and much we cannot give him, but we mean to give him everything we can, and we so.

So you see more or less how we live. We live the greater part of our time within
the walls of our bungalow. The 'gnats devour^ us when we step outside and the misery
is more than can be born. When we go out, it means long sleeves, a cape of mosquito

net, citronella oil, and a fan and with these you have more or less a degree of
comfort. Only that is a blade of grass touches you you will have a hundred or more
tiny insects which are invisible to the naked eye on you and they bite a bite that
itches worse than anything you can think of. We must go out a great deal in our
work with the Indians, but when it ie not necessary our choiee is to stay inside.

You ask if there are other missionaries near. Just now a couple have come
to be with us here on this station, but until they came it had been just about exactly
one year since I had seen a white woman, missionary or otherwise. We see only Indiana
We ore hundreds of miles of the most dreadful kind of traveling from any other white
people* While we would about go wild with joy at the chance to visit with you folks
or other civilized Christiana, yet we cannot say we get lonely for people. We are so
busy with our work. There are so many lines of service. So many things required to
carry on a new big work like this. So many matters to settle, and problems to solve.

I am sure Helen Mae was darling as the pink rose bud. It will be a treat
to us just to look at the little folks in the family when we get home.

You Bee living on a river and having the launch David really has to know
something about being a sailor, tier ef ore the enclosed pictures. I will put the
- .o -for Qolda and Ivon in with the one home as they will read the letter that goes
tJ, j I suppose. Have run out of thin paper and three copies is all my machine will
make. These are all thahen right in front of our house. You will have the 18 months
picture before you get this as I sent the film to my Mother and she will give it to
you* It takes so long to get our negatives, send them back to Lima, get the prints
back and then send them out again to be mailed to you. Sending the*( negative gets

them to you about 2 months sooner.

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Our dog Laddie is being nursed back to health just now. Day before
yesterday he tried to conquer a small tiger and the tiger got the best of him.
has 4 naBty holes in his head and neck- Can't eat from hiB plate on the floor

t ,_;4 it must be held up to him. It is hot inBide but dare not let him out as the

bats take advantage of the wouids and suck hie blood and he cannot afford ‘^o lose
any more. We are quite sure he will live tho. The first night we feared for him.

My) losing him would be a blow to us as he brings us most of the meat we ever get.

He is the leader of the doge that hunt. Without them we would have little game.
Roscoe has little time to go into the woods to hunt, but the dogs bring the animals
to the river or to the pasture back of the house and then all we need to do is to
shoot them. So you see why we prize Laddie so greatly. The Indian that was hunting
with Laddie saw the tiger and shot but did not get him. B u t as long as he saved
Laddiefe life that is better than even killing the tiger.

The letter to Hr. Headquarters* is funny. We saw it also in the Pathfinder
that came in the same mail as your letter Ivon.

No Bertha you are mistaken. We do not get used to doing without potatoes.
You just plant some extra hills for 19J0 because we want them mashed, fried, baked
and every way there is to fix them. BrWight up on potatoes like Ohio people are
you don't ever get used to doing without them. We have substitutes, but we want
potatoes*

You say you are glad Rqsb wae better* He was better and now is all-in
again. It ie the heat I guess* He has had three attacks of the same kind*

Always when he has been out in the hot *( sun. It ie so scorching hot and I think
that ia what makes him sick. It may not be that, but we have no way of knowing.

It is a great disadvantage being so far from civilization. He is not real sick

but is not well. Can't sleep well at night, and is miserable all the time. It
bothers me awfully but we trust he will soon be well again. He says now that

lough time cannot come too soon for him. When you are well you think you can
stay indefinitely when you see the work growing and prosperina and Indians coming
and hearing the Gospel and being brought frctn darkness into the light and given
a chance of Eternal Life. But when you are miserable and half sick then you
feel it is time to get a change from Jungle heat, and hard work for a while.

David is beginning to talk and it is so interesting to us. Every day

he surprises us with something new and we get a lot of funand joy from it. He
talks English and Spanish and Campa. We talk Spanish to the Indians and they
talk more Campa and we talk that some also. The Indians love David and talk to
him and he uses their words as well as Spanish. Last night in hie sleep he said
"Da me 11 which is 11 Give it to me" in Spanish. Was having a little dream I guess.

He says "banana" just as plainly as you can say it. He loves them end eats lots
of them* They are so good. We had a bunch of them as tall ae Ross. Beautiful
big bananas. I will trade you a whole bunch like this for 1 apple. He left
the sand pile and came to the door the other day saying "burdy, burdyt I had
never heard him say 'bird' but it was plain that was what he meant and I looked
up to see if there was a bird, because there are so many about. But he walked to
the door of the wash room and there were two tiny baby chicks there. Sure enough
they were birdies. The mother hen had been killed right in our chibken yard the
night before by a little tiger and the babies had been brought to the laundry to
have personal attention*

A balsa just came down river bringing 5 Campa Indians on it* J of them
had been here before and returned to their forest home and now have returned with
two new ones who have wanted to eee these wonderful things they told them of. We
•■re glad for new Indians. It means that many more to hear the Gospel and have
h. !r chance of salvation. And more than two because they always tell others also.

A ~alsa ia a raft made of balBa logs. They are very light wood, like material used
in making parte of areoplanes. Excuse. That is the Spanish spelling f it, but you
know what I mean, one of the little vehicles like 'Lindy' used. When an Indian
does not have a canoe he makes a balsa by trying these logs together with vines *

Love to all. Stulls.

We saw the account of Aunt A ima's death in the Mansfield News

Cahuapanas,

Via Pto* Bermudez y Lima*

* ‘ Peru, S. A*

March I6, 1953*

Dear Folks:

You doubtlessly think the Jungle has grown us under - and
it would if we did not keep fighting it all the time. The trees we
cut 8 months ago are now replaced by from three to five healthy young
trees that have come up from the roots. This Jungle will probably

never really be conquered, the vegetable growth is constant and abound¬
ing. The same ground that is beautiflully cleaned of all growth, even
the grasB becomes a sol id young forest again in three years. To keep it
open the same ground must be cleared every three months. So you see we
vjould grow under if we just sat still.

Just as we liad begun to think that the air service was safe
for the jungle down came three planes. Two of them fell in the forest
destroying the planes completely and killing everyone in both planes.

The third one came down on a stone island in the Paleasa river which
empties into our river below ua. The pilot and two passengers were
safe. The Pilot Barrera is the second Air Chief in this section and he
did a great work in landing his plane as he did. Another plane searching

for him located him pnd saw the people were walking about so they returned
each day for three days taking food and dropping it from the air, afraid
to attempta landing aa the island is covered with good sized rocks.

The fourth and fifth day the storme were so bad and the clouds so heavy
that they could not locate them. The sixth day the Pilot arrived here
at our place and asked the loan of our outboard motor and tools with which
to take his plane apart. It was not badly wrecked but beyond use until
extensive repairs can be made. With our motor he and a crew of helpers
went up the branch river end diamanteled the plane putting it on a raft they
made of balsa logs and got it floating. This way they brought it down river
and took it on down to the next air port for repairs. The motor came back
to us 0. K. A Btorm had caused the emergency landing out here. They
have a very long trip from the Jungle landing field out over the Andeae
to the port on the otherside. This day 3arrera got caught in a storm
and fought the clouds for three hours trying to clear himself and make his
wgy over the mountains but he finally knew he was going to run out of gas
before he could reach the port end not caring to mash up on top of the noun-
tains he followed the river searching for a possible landing plaoe and was
forced down on this stone island. He landed with one solid jolt and his plane
stayed right there.

The war below us is making it difficult for us to get supplies and
some things are just not to be had. T he thing we miss most is sugar.

It comes from the east and that river is the battle ground now so we just
do without sugar. V/e dare not think of complaint however as we are still
enjoying safety and the lack of supplies can be taken joyfully.

While I write Ross is outside where the cement shovels are busy.

He has begun work on the new school room and is as busy aa can be.

The Indians have stayed right through the rainy season this year
and we have from 50 to 70 under teaching every day. We have 16 meetings
each week beside the constant contact with this number in the manual labor
and the doctoring of the sick.

We are busy from morning till night. We would love to see you all
and it is just as well we have no time to think too much about it.

Lovingly,

Cahuapaan e, Peru, South An 3rica.
June 15 , I955,

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•lushed, to the Hospital from tho Jingle,

Whan a child I hal a certain ni$*te»are in which a great need for speed

mo suppressed by a widening iilownena of notion, njid 'rushing 1 anywhere from

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the Jingle la eesethijy; like t2a*t*

Monday learning ao|T ut on ;ty sun hot to go cut for my morning 1 e work Z
gore thalike to God for*the full vigor n& h 3a 1th I felt In ny body - - even after
having b n more than two years in the Jungle heat and eervioe without a day of
change, I felt easily qial to another year, The day rae spent ae all

Mondays are spent with household duties, family activities, visiting with sene

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Indians and doctortn e hers, the noon mooting nd the afternoon childrens*
mooting, and finally oanaofc with bedtime stories, prayers and bed. In the
night I suffered an fru e attack of appendicitis. The followin', day ms spent
in agony which was relieved nonewiat in the early hours of the night which me
doubtlessly the time 1 tat the appendix ruptured,

Doing in the Jungle we reckoned operations as Impossible for us because of
our loot tion and the jr at distance from doctors nd hospitals, and as we read
of others needing and having Operations we believed God would keep us from that
need. But He woke up from that quiet restful believing to the startling
experience of being do 3. Ivor art in the time of such a noedji Thai a God is Our si,
forwWmt is He preparing us? May the violonoe and desperation of -those tiraoe-
arousc us to the reel! ut tion of tho power of the mij£xty God we constantly limit
by expecting so little of Him and fay staying for eo long a time on the c ue level

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of believing, Ky painful experience has acquainted me with 0 . marvel working

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God to Rhea an m^rgency is no surprise end with Whoa -nothing- is impossible,

X have quietly believed that for a long time but the way X believe it now Is
different,

fe know I must be tek<n* to a hoenltal and my husband and Mr, Reffe began
maldbqg. a stretcher, Trinidad, our cook, began setting down buttons to make

the little "uitSjf in which David left the S atee two and 0 half years ago, long
enough to cover him for the trip* There ms no tine for making now garments

antf in the Jungle we wear
was to take ua to the oold
ogpected to op an ft* v.other

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the thinset of suoner cleti'ng* while our trip out
it of more then 1(5000 feet. Trunks wo had not
were searched and enough woolen thing* ware found

to outfit the family - ift-'r 1 fasMon, not 1955*

The outboard motor wno put in the little boat and wlilla a ailmt crowd

of red men and fontl^i n etoed on the river's bank we started our alow trip
up river leaving t&v Re; fe bo continue the work of winning souls from heathenism.
Row God hat hloeeod She isdnietry of Ms Word in the Jungle, "he Sunday before
we left the station ton acre red men and won an were baptised In testimony of their
love for the Lord Joe a and their pledge to follow nnd carve Kin, IS*, Stull
managed the motor while I lay on the stretcher in the little beat which wee *
only slightly wider turn the ctrotchor itself, David; 3 'i/2 years old and
Marilyn 5, fit in alAig the edges and rlnid'd want along to the end of the
river journey to dhs!^ up kllm and pase crackers, for the footer did not dare atop
os every hour counted In a time of extreme pain Marilyn asked me 'Mother you
eryingf* 1 told h«r - "Ho,* Then "You happyt* I told her *yes'» Then nho
assured ra* “You going to got well*. Every condition w»s hopeless, but ovnry
heart wae trusting, ho heat was terrific and my face was burned deeply ’-nd

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painfully as I lay f/iiir, the shy, the only position I could take, MJr fees

was covered, but jungle cun meeting river zttsr is not robbed of its power by '•

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coverings, Nitfit came and our little craft wao tied at the rivor'e odge where
unbroken forest moots water, and where we passed the hours of darkness in the
same little boat, Zt rained and as big drops splashed from the narrow covering
onto Marilyn's face ah* covered her eyee with her two baby hands and tried to

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sleep. Ho mo made a oound of complaint - for mother was still living,] The
nirht with the somde from jungle beasts and falling rain finally wore away and.

with the first light of dawn wo were on our way again, mingling our praises with
the rungs of early birds for ws wars a united family beginning a nos day on

earth, a day that would bring us nearer the help we so needed, The motor got.
hot an? stopped ae wo rare trying to force our way through an ugly whirlpool, •

The three red n«i who were wi|h us for Just such an anwreenoy skillfully pa -died
and Foiled us to nafety, k\ the river's edge the water was ixgain started.

This mme diffloil+y vf a Aenood a nuaber of times ae the rivu* was high and .

swift* During one meh timo fa the anchor was dropped its chain wrapped ar’ind

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a snog at the bottom y»t the river and a few dangerous naemts wore experienced

when -ho motor starts J ur off and the anchor refused to relaaja. While those
eacc-'OPienaoe cause but little concern to those who are r t uia lag, they are a bit
of a strain on a oielt (wifed helpless mother with the safety of two little children
utmont in her mind, end yet a restful pease attended every hour of the Journey# 1

In the af ternr-en of thftg oeccnd day a bearing loosened in the motor uid it was
rendered u so less, to tied gp at the river's edge la Uui burning sun and oaong

swarming files and waited while the three Indians aoujit he ip* iiow long *?ould we

have to wait? Ho one Isunr coal ne o no asked* An \xi>:>~T'&ly peace was among and
in ua* Trinidad waded virou^i the mud up the bank and hung rain soakod blanket s
end clothing in the 4% to dry* She broke dry bmnoh >» Iron a fallen r&i and
making a fire cooked spun rice and ontoea opono i the sugjur can, shock up warn
kli*» and we had a feash while onoh unoccupied hand ftonad away the flies* Weal

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days as it caused suffering too i^h to bear* After a wh^le a large canoe, un¬
ox acted but sent by Cfod, cone up river. Zt was from the sail launch we had not
and passed some hours down river and was returning with the Captain of the regiment
of soldiers on board as he was returning to look for a canoe load of soldiers that
had failed to arrive at the launch* The Captain offered to take us on to the
end. of our river jeurnoy and ne accepted his kindness as we .gave thanks to Cod for
making this prolisten for up. They lifted mo, stretcher and all from the little

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boat to the canoe and from evening until well post nidni^it we paddled river,
through strong currents, striking snags and in art e Incut constant rain* Tl*
eanoe was toe narrow for anyone to be beside m and 00 low that I lay well above'
the sides which I pipped by reaching down when the canoe would strike a mag
in the darkness throwing it suddenly on one aide, Ur* Stull oat at ny foot
holding one sleeping child, managing an umbrella end trying to keen one arm along

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the aide of the osaoo to
dangerous In tho unrlcieee

ouoh had oauoed the MLay uf

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otruofc a tma& which over
hi* log broken, . nd

ms* Tho whirlpools were difficult nd
ripen reaching Use wA of cor canoo trip found ons
ochsr canoe load of collicra, the oaitos having
it. Tiro of the soldiers were disabled, ato» having
•ethos*? serf dr armed* aol«oi ymise arose to <>od o« we

thahkffi Hin there sr$.-Vl|o water* s edge for having brought us through so on hours of
paddling in tho dfevkaoSs up that .sane rives • In every such tine of orisis ■>»*
trlurph these assuming words scunded in 119- ears -m& appeared over mo like & tr-nner
•The LORD Is la Ood*| % "As LORD He is nod*. Do ranch 0* that at tlmee it cams
as nor breath, rni boam* as a foundation ;;irmor hen that of the world, and did .

away with the secrJLng pot nihility of anything r tally going wrong, or any need not

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being provided for* . Mongers lost their fright* questional needed no answer, pain
was robbed of Ito torture, plane thatauppssmtly were going wrong seuaed rijht
uttlsr the svor returidj. et/oranae *T he LORD Hr is 0od r *

Than wo wore in Ictaudes where w« Must have a plane - or go ■‘l^ht days
by mule* One come t V ) taken on a stretcher by mule oven that narrow mountain

trail* But Peru was it wur ar*l plosses do' not aeuspt civil passengers, nd anyway,
they told uc, the lor^S planes could not land at tho Denudes fi Id* Miet could
we dot Things loofcbl difficult but before leaving our station I had bean given
this aoruranee - "I will cause you to fly on the eagles - . So I lay under tho leaf
roof of tho * hotel' and r* Stull standing out aide sighted s large plane coning
in tho dirsetlcsi of Soraafclis »nd he prayed that 3sd would ’cloud it down 1 .

It continued In its flight pant Bermudas. Disappeared* Kao goue twenty

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minutes* Roturned and lr 4sd* The Pilot oxplaimcd that ho had goltsn into

* clouds' ond knowing ho was just about out of gas did not de.ro to try to make it

to the next landing fluid* feeing ay condition he cold he would take us when

he oould go but would have to wire for gas to bo brought ts him and it .eight take *

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three 4.ye as wiring Crsia that 'point is done in its own ingle way* About on

hour and s half later ano .her plane was heard caning iron tho other direction and

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they saw it pass and then it returned and landed* The pilot esqplained that

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ssoing tho big plane down at Dernudos he know it must bo in trouble end not being

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In a hurry returns* tc got details* Upon finding that the need wae for gat
and knowing of my m<>u t he drkincd his cm tank of gas and put it into 'tits t/rik
of the big piano and in to miiutes we were in San Hamm* Having made the trip

it would have taken »i lit, da yi to do by mule* The trip wad pleasant to all
and David looked down jfDOO feet watching the mule trail he h‘nd been carried
over 5 1/2 year* a&o vl&n we first entered the Jurf-la*

All these provisions -are aadd for us through aen v.hc had no interost in

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tie as individuals nd oevteinly not as missionaries. Cere anyone say that the
powers of this world -r© out of the roach of tiio hand of the Lord?

A wire had gonsjto Linn asking ft*. Clark to moot uc in -'an tamon* Mr* Stull

was traveling with a jhel >les* wife and two small children . lone now* and did not

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'mow what conditions r ight be at this point of the Journey. Mr* Clark net ue
end as traffic goes only one way an thsss narrow nount"' in reads we had to stay
there until the newt Buy* so X wae errried fron piano to hotel and the next day
fret hotel to auto* At the edge of town we were stopped and told that two

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truck loads of soldier c that ware reported on the road down the mountain had

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not arrived end tint * cor could, leave until they e»iae is off the one way road*
tie waited while two hr ire passed and It eecned it would bf neceesary to carry ns
back up the steps to the hotel roan again and lose another night there* but
rei {entering the Captain** canoe* the big plans and the plane with the gas* we
dcelded to wait and trust end ae in every other cane the lord opened the road
and in a little while we were on our way - rejoicing^ - over a bumpy mountain
read half way up the uountein side to the next place where the night oust be
spent* And from there another auto trip like it to the train* But there
threatened to be no train* as the president of Peru was (hot the day m t*t?ro
• traveling by auto* Phen we heard that a special train was being made up it

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wne no eurpriee as it just seamed natural by this tino that tiio I*rd (The Ir G e d
would provide a w«*y* Ta on it was all day until evening on the train* They

took ae from tiio train to the hospital where the operation showed conditions that
could not be isulorev ed by. the -sccep .io4ib.jr splendid surgeon who operated*! ‘ The
appendix* ruptured long before* was coated with gencyene* X had traveled a full

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week la Mb eendltlsn and yet, me living* 'ft %e appendix me e-»t m*y to -*

**»»lnad «tad nan returned to >ho hospital with *«• en>leneti0tt*. ’Share rUI.
iww be m» enplotMtlefc exee»i +h*t Sod worked no it £loafed Him to do* Z lovar
that death 1 « door epme-l befiorp mo and. the Lord came 1mm mi cloned It*

Z toll all tJv' lory, Z fowl Z «n living On antanded life

and Z wirft It to V> |teil In oxnet a a cor tens# with Htn ill, flow S thank
Him for the noinllig oiJ.j far BftB^l prayer at ny hed*t<1«j far th*
continue** prayero ^ tiooo In tho hmoland who JQSSP w before <i*d m that when
an ft«urgency arlaoo Jwo jure already th'-re* So aro rmindefl a^ain that tho onaejr

i Hr 3l * ewla of Jungle rod n r » 5w»* *v*t rl'hdrswn frea

of those *ho
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Now Z un roo t,- y U»V3 at hnadqitortore In Una* fftr ^kewrjf is a felt tUm
’^re the operation* Infection Had dans Araujo o»t the ofcrjjge
Jwiglo to tho altitude0 and on to the coa.ei tagotfter with
X woe under the ethsr prepared Tho m ey nay for the
the operation* and tho phlotdMe which 0p;09i*v; ny
% all the complications gmt pregfas* hta bean male* ,

as Z wee very »v-mk
In tho clime to from
the groat length of
pneumonia that foil
recovery. However
and the Lord Who ha*
health and make It pa

life la altogether able to Again gftm m perfect

a for u* to adddjr return to the worts ef ’"la f

in *iw Angie*

•the 7/3RD 3* >v Odd**